Can Picafort: Zanclean, Spain
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Otodontidae
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Carcharodon megalodon
(Agassiz 1835)
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| recombined as Otodus megalodon | ||||||||||
| From this location, situated in the Cuenca de La Puebla, originate a few teeth dating to the early Pliocene and attributed by Bauzá Rullan (1948: 10, pl. 1, fig. 1-3) Megalodon | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Spain | State/province: | Mallorca | County: | Can Picafort |
| Coordinates: | 39.8° North, 3.1° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.9° North, 2.8° East |
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: | Son Mir Sequence | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Age after Boessenecker et al., 2019.
Age based on Marsili (2006): The island of Mallorca is characterized by a succession of five depositional siciliclastic macro-sequences, the last of which put in place during the Pliocene (Simo & Ramon, 1986). In the last Pliocene macro-sequences (in Simo & Ramon, 1986) there are two subsequences.The sequence "Son Mir ", crops out in Palma and La Puebla basins and it is dominated by a succession of marine clays, dated to the Early Pliocene (see Alvaro et al. , 1984; Simo & Ramon , 1986). The sequence "Bugeur-St. Jordi " crops out in Cubata de Inca and in Santa Maria, La Puebla and Palma basins, and is characterized by conglomerates and limestones of prograding deltaic environment, dated to the late Pliocene ( Simo & Ramon , 1986). |
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 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 152233 | ||
| Authorizer: | C. Jaramillo | Enterer: | C. Pimiento |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | ||
| Created: | 2013-11-12 09:29:56 | Last modified: | 2019-02-19 12:57:51 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-11-12 09:29:56 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 48922. | J. Bauza. 1948. Nuevas aportaciones al conocimiento de la ictiologia del Neógeno Catalano-Balear. Estudios Geológicos 1-19 [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] | |
| 48921 | S. Marsili. 2006. Analisi Sistematica, Paleoecologica e Paleogeografica della Selaciofauna Plio-Pleistocenica del Mediterraneo. [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento] |