Font Rodona de Dalt: Late/Upper Miocene, Spain
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Otodontidae
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Carcharodon megalodon
(Agassiz 1835)
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recombined as Otodus megalodon | |||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Spain | State/province: | Balearic Islands | County: | Menorca/Minorca |
Coordinates: | 39.9° North, 4.1° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 40.1° North, 3.4° 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: | 11.60800 - 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: | 162716 | ||
Authorizer: | C. Jaramillo | Enterer: | C. Pimiento |
Modifier: | C. Pimiento | ||
Created: | 2014-10-02 10:15:59 | Last modified: | 2014-10-02 10:18:14 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-10-02 10:15:59 |
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] |