Grand Bay 13: Early/Lower Miocene - Middle Miocene, Grenada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Carcharocles megalodon (Agassiz 1835)
recombined as Otodus megalodon
Deposited in the Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum, Leiden
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinus obscurus (Le Sueur 1818)
see common names

Geography
Country:Grenada
Coordinates: 12.5° North, 61.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:12.5° North, 61.4° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Miocene - Middle Miocene
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kendance
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: Volcaniclastic sandstones with some more carbonate-rich horizons. The contact with the underlying Belmont Formation is unconformable; the Kendeace Formation grades upwards into the carbonate-rich Carriacou Formation
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:FLMNH
Metadata
Also known as:XU013
Database number:162023
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:C. Pimiento
Modifier:C. Pimiento
Created:2014-09-17 18:02:30 Last modified:2014-09-17 18:12:35
Access level:the public Released:2014-09-17 18:02:30
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
52781. R. W. Portell, G. Hubbell, S. Donovan, D.A.T. Harper, and R. Pickerill. 2008. Miocene sharks in the Kendeace and Grand Bay formations of Carriacou, The Grenadines, Lesser Antilles. Caribbean Journal of Science 44(3):279-286 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento]