Wanganui: Opoitian - Castlecliffian, New Zealand
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Scyliorhinidae
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Megascyliorhinus cooperi
Cappetta and Ward 1977
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Keyes 1984 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Otodontidae
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Carcharodon megalodon
(Agassiz 1835)
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recombined as Otodus megalodon | ||||||||||
Also studied in Pimiento and Balk | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | New Zealand | State/province: | North Island | County: | Wellington |
Coordinates: | 39.8° South, 174.6° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 41.4° South, 175.1° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | unpublished field data |
Time
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
Key time interval: | Opoitian - Castlecliffian |
Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 0.34000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Rapanui | Member: | Rapanui Marine Sand |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
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 |
Museum repositories: | BMNH |
Taxonomic list comments:Specimen housed in British Mus of Nat His. |
Metadata
Also known as: | Q22/f7464 | ||
Database number: | 152191 | ||
Authorizer: | C. Jaramillo, M. Uhen | Enterer: | C. Pimiento, M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2013-11-11 13:22:11 | Last modified: | 2019-09-04 11:42:47 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-11-11 13:22:11 |
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:
61708 | I. M. Keyes. 1984. New records of fossil elasmobranch genera Megascyliorhinus, Centrophorus, and Dalatias (Order Selachii) in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 27(2):203-216 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen] | |
49081 | C. Pimiento and M. Balk. 2015. The extinct giant shark Carcharocles megalodon: A model for understanding deep-time body size trends of marine apex predators. [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento/C. Pimiento] |