Cre outcrop: Zanclean, Portugal
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Lamnidae
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Cosmopolitodus hastalis
(Agassiz 1838)
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recombined as Carcharodon hastalis | |||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Otodontidae
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Megaselachus megalodon
(Agassiz 1835)
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recombined as Otodus megalodon | |||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Portugal | State/province: | Azores | County: | Santa Maria Island |
Coordinates: | 37.0° North, 25.1° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 37.0° North, 25.5° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
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: | Touril Complex | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Age after Boessenecker et al., 2019.
Based on the temporal overlapping ranges of several species of the holoplanktonic mollusc assemblage of Cré, Janssen et al. (2008) concluded that this outcrop is early Pliocene (Zanclean) in age. Remains of other pelagic animals, such as whales (Estevens and Ávila, 2007) are also frequent at Cré. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "siliciclastic" |
Lithology description: The fossils described here were found in a bed of calcarenites | |
Environment: | coastal indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | all macrofossils |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collection method comments: All numbered and figured specimens are housed in the palaeontological collections of the Department of Biology of the University of the Azores (DBUA-F). |
Metadata
Database number: | 154113 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2014-01-27 18:12:07 | Last modified: | 2019-02-19 12:58:41 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-01-27 18:12:07 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
49965. | S. P. Ávila, R. S. Ramalho, and R. Vullo. 2012. Systematics, palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography of the Neogene fossil sharks from the Azores (Northeast Atlantic). Annales de Paléontologie 98:167-189 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/S. Ávila] |
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] |