La Puebla: Pliocene, Spain
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Otodontidae
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Carcharodon megalodon
(Agassiz 1835)
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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] |