Siena: Zanclean, Italy

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:Italy State/province:Toscana
Coordinates: 43.3° North, 11.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.2° North, 11.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:local area
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 4 Ma (other)
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Age after Boessenecker et al., 2019.
Age based on Marsili (2006, page 235)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Lithology description: no information given
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
Collection method comments: Repositories in: Museo di Storia Naturale sezione Geologia e Paleontologia dell’Università di Firenze (MSNSGP)
Metadata
Database number:152247
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:C. Pimiento
Modifier:M. Uhen
Created:2013-11-12 20:39:15 Last modified:2019-02-19 13:16:34
Access level:the public Released:2013-11-12 20:39:15
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

48921. S. Marsili. 2006. Analisi Sistematica, Paleoecologica e Paleogeografica della Selaciofauna Plio-Pleistocenica del Mediterraneo. [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]
38038 S. Marsili. 2008. Systematic, paleoecologic and paleobiogeographic analysis of the Plio-Pleistocene Mediterranean elasmobranch fauna. Atti della Societa Toscana di Scienze Naturali Residente in Pisa, Memorie, Serie A: Processi Verbali 113:81-88 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/C. Pimiento]