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Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Otodontidae
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Carcharocles megalodon
(Agassiz 1835)
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Pimiento and Balk 2015 | ||||||
| recombined as Otodus megalodon | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California |
| Coordinates: | 37.9° North, 122.7° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.4° North, 120.2° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Santa Cruz | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Age and Formation after Boessenecker et al 2019. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | mudstone |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BMNH | Collection dates: | 1929 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 152485 | ||
| Authorizer: | C. Jaramillo | Enterer: | C. Pimiento |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | ||
| Created: | 2013-11-22 22:36:39 | Last modified: | 2019-02-19 12:28:48 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-11-22 22:36:39 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 50617. | D. S. Jordan and H. Hanibal. 1923. Fossil sharks and rays of the Pacific slope of North America. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 22:27-63 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento] |
Secondary references:
| 13595 | R. W. Boessenecker, D. J. Eheret, D. J. Long, M. Churchill, E. Martin and S. J. Boessenecker. 2019. The Early Pliocene extinction of the mega-toothed shark Otodus megalodon: a view from the eastern North Pacific. PeerJ 7:e6088 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 49081 | C. Pimiento and M. Balk. 2015. The extinct giant shark Carcharocles megalodon: A model for understanding deep-time body size trends of marine apex predators. [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento/C. Pimiento] |