Wanganui: Opoitian - Castlecliffian, New Zealand

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Megascyliorhinus cooperi Cappetta and Ward 1977
Keyes 1984
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Carcharodon megalodon (Agassiz 1835)
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Basis of coordinate:unpublished field data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]