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