Cooper Center 02254: Late/Upper Miocene, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Desmostylidae
Desmostylus sp. Marsh 1888
Actinopteri
Teleostei indet. (Müller 1846)
Vertebra
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Carcharocles megalodon (Agassiz 1835)
recombined as Otodus megalodon
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Isurus planus (Agassiz 1856)
Isurus hastalis (Agassiz 1838)
recombined as Carcharodon hastalis
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:Orange
Coordinates: 33.8° North, 117.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.4° North, 115.3° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Miocene
Age range of interval:11.63000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Puente Member:La Vida
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Cooper Center: http://www.jdcoopercenter.org/paleocollections
Metadata
Database number:162458
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:C. Pimiento
Created:2014-09-25 13:20:27 Last modified:2014-09-25 13:20:27
Access level:the public Released:2014-09-25 13:20:27
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 Carcharocles megalodon unpublished collections from Natural History Museums around the world.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]