Pipiriki: Opoitian, New Zealand

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Carcharodon megalodon (Agassiz 1835)
recombined as Otodus megalodon
see common names

Geography
Country:New Zealand State/province:Wellington
Coordinates: 39.8° South, 175.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.9° South, 176.1° East
Basis of coordinate:unpublished field data
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Zanclean 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Opoitian
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 3.70000 m.y. ago
Age estimate:5.5 to 4.7 Ma (other)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Matemateaonga Sandstone
Stratigraphy comments: Age and Formation after Boessenecker et al., 2019.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: Specimen in Wanganui Museum ex S.H. Drew Collection, purchased 1895. Keyes, 1972, N.Z. Journal Geol. Geophys.
Metadata
Also known as:R21/f7495
Database number:152190
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:C. Pimiento
Modifier:M. Uhen
Created:2013-11-11 10:59:02 Last modified:2019-02-19 12:53:05
Access level:the public Released:2013-11-11 10:59:02
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
48465. I. W. Keyes. 1972. New records of the Elasmobranch C. Megalodon (Agassiz) and a review of the genus Carcharodon in the New Zealand fossil record. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 15(2):228-242 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento]

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]