Tejar Consuelo quarry, cuban sharks: Burdigalian - Langhian, Cuba

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Heterodontiformes - Heterodontidae
Sphyrna prisca Agassiz 1843
recombined as Cestracion prisca
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Galeocerdo contortus Gibbes 1847
recombined as Physogaleus contortus
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae
Hemipristis serra Agassiz 1835
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Carchariidae
Carcharias taurus Rafinesque 1810
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus 1758)
This species first appeared in the late Miocene (Ehret et al. 2012) and hence, this occurrence is dubious
Isurus hastalis (Agassiz 1838)
recombined as Carcharodon hastalis
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Carcharodon megalodon (Agassiz 1835)
recombined as Otodus megalodon
see common names

Geography
Country:Cuba
Coordinates: 23.1° North, 82.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:23.4° North, 78.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Burdigalian - Langhian
Age range of interval:20.44000 - 13.82000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Cojímar
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Iturralde-Vinent and MacPhee, 1996
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified not reported
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection,survey of museum collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:159595
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:C. Pimiento
Modifier:C. Pimiento
Created:2014-08-05 10:31:09 Last modified:2014-10-02 13:26:56
Access level:authorizer only Released:2016-08-05 10:31:09
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

48529. M. Iturralde-Vinent, G. Hubbell, and R. Rojas. 1996. Catalogue of Cuban fossil Elasmobranchii (Paleocene to Pliocene) and paleogeographic implications of their Lower to Middle Miocene occurrence. Boletín de la Sociedad Jamaicana de Geología 31:7-21 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento]

Secondary references:

52728 M. Iturralde-Vinet and R. D. E. MacPhee. 1996. Paleogeography of the Caribbean region: implications for Cenozoic biogeography. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 238:1-95 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento/C. Pimiento]