Son Sintes: Late/Upper Miocene, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Perciformes - Sparidae
Sparus cinctus Agassiz 1843
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Carcharias egertoni (Agassiz 1843)
recombined as Prionodon egertoni
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Carcharodon megalodon (Agassiz 1835)
recombined as Otodus megalodon
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Balearic Islands County:Menorca/Minorca
Coordinates: 40.0° North, 3.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.2° North, 3.3° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
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
Stratigraphy comments: Age based in Pomar et al. 2002
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
Metadata
Database number:162712
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:C. Pimiento
Modifier:C. Pimiento
Created:2014-10-02 10:03:29 Last modified:2014-10-02 10:19:35
Access level:the public Released:2014-10-02 10:03:29
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
52975. A. Obrador and B. Mercadal. 1973. Nuevas localidades con fauna ictiológica para el Neógeno menorquín. Acta Geológica Hispánica 8(4):115-119 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento/C. Pimiento]

Secondary references:

52976 L. Pomar, A. C. Obrador, and H. Westphal. 2002. Sub-wavebase cross-bedded grainstones on a distally steepened carbonate ramp, Upper Miocene, Menorca, Spain. Sedimentology 49:139-169 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento]