Grand Bay 1: Middle Miocene, Grenada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinus obscurus (Le Sueur 1818)
see common names

Geography
Country:Grenada
Coordinates: 12.5° North, 61.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:12.4° North, 60.3° West
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Middle Miocene
Age range of interval:15.97000 - 11.60800 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Grand Bay
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: Volcaniclastic turbidite succession deposited in a more easterly basin to the other Miocene formations and at a water depth in excess of 150 m
Geology comments: The deepwater origin is demonstrated by abundant sedimentological, paleontological, and ichnological features
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:XU003
Database number:162024
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:C. Pimiento
Created:2014-09-17 18:09:28 Last modified:2014-09-17 18:09:28
Access level:the public Released:2014-09-17 18:09:28
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]