Price Creek Local Fauna: Early/Lower Clarendonian, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Negaprion brevirostris Poey 1868
Rhizoprionodon sp. Whitley 1929
Carcharhinus sp. de Blainville 1816
Carcharhinus signatus
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae
Hemipristis serra Agassiz 1835
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Sphyrnidae
Sphyrna sp. Rafinesque 1810
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae
Physogaleus contortus (Gibbes 1847)
Galeocerdo mayumbensis
Physogaleus aduncus (Agassiz 1835)
recombined as Galeocerdo aduncus
Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Ginglymostomatidae
Ginglymostoma sp. Müller and Henle 1838
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Carcharocles megalodon (Agassiz 1835)
recombined as Otodus megalodon
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Columbia
Coordinates: 30.2° North, 82.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.5° North, 80.1° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5-6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Clarendonian
Age range of interval:12.50000 - 9.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Statenville
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:FLMNH
Metadata
Also known as:CO082
Database number:162456
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:C. Pimiento
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2014-09-25 12:39:26 Last modified:2014-09-25 12:39:26
Access level:the public Released:2014-09-25 12:39:26
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

52569. C. Pimiento. 2014. Carcharocles megalodon unpublished collections from Natural History Museums around the world. [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento/C. Pimiento]