Cre outcrop: Zanclean, Portugal

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Cosmopolitodus hastalis (Agassiz 1838)
recombined as Carcharodon hastalis
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Megaselachus megalodon (Agassiz 1835)
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]