Bonares-Casa del Pino: Zanclean, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Parotodus benedeni (Le Hon 1871)
Carcharocles megalodon (Agassiz 1835)
recombined as Otodus megalodon
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Isurus hastalis (Agassiz 1838)
recombined as Carcharodon hastalis
Isurus desori Sismonda 1849
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Carchariidae
Carcharias taurus Rafinesque 1810
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Huelva
Coordinates: 37.5° North, 6.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.5° North, 6.8° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Zanclean 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Zanclean
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago
Age estimate:5.33 to 3.6 Ma (other)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Arenas de Huelva
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Age after Boessenecker et al., 2019.
Age stated in text, based on González-Delgado et al., (2004).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,field collection
Minimum sieve size:0.500 Maximum sieve size:1.000
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Colección de Paleontología de la Universidad de Salamanca, España (PALUSAL)
Metadata
Database number:151888
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:C. Pimiento
Modifier:M. Uhen
Created:2013-10-15 12:36:37 Last modified:2019-02-19 12:56:37
Access level:the public Released:2013-10-15 12:36:37
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
48533. E. X. M. García, M. Telles-Antunes, A. Cáceres-Balbino, F. Ruiz-Muñoz, and J. Civis-Llovera. 2009. Los tiburones Lamniformes (Chondrichthyes, Galeomorphii) del Plioceno inferior de la Formación Arenas de Huelva, suroeste de la cuenca del Guadalquivir, España. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 26(3):674-686 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

13595 R. W. Boessenecker, D. J. Eheret, D. J. Long, M. Churchill, E. Martin and S. J. Boessenecker. 2019. The Early Pliocene extinction of the mega-toothed shark Otodus megalodon: a view from the eastern North Pacific. PeerJ 7:e6088 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
48530 M. A. Iturralde-Vinent. 2012. Estratigrafía del Eoceno Superior al Plioceno de La Habana, Mayabeque y oeste de Matanzas. In M. A. Iturralde-Vinent (ed.), Compendio de Geología de Cuba y del Caribe. Segunda Edición [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento/M. Uhen]