La Puebla: Pliocene, Spain

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:Spain State/province:Mallorca County:La Pobla
Coordinates: 39.8° North, 3.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.9° North, 2.7° East
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pliocene
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 2.58800 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Age based on Marsili (2006): 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:152234
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:C. Pimiento
Modifier:C. Pimiento
Created:2013-11-12 10:13:25 Last modified:2013-11-12 10:18:31
Access level:authorizer only Released:2016-11-12 10:13:25
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

48920. J. Bauza. 1949. Contribuciones al conocimiento de la fauna ictiologica fosil de Mallorca. Boletìn de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural 47:203-217 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento]