Cre outcrop (Pliocene of Portugal)

Where: Azores, Portugal (37.0° N, 25.1° W: paleocoordinates 37.0° N, 25.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Touril Complex Formation, Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• Age after Boessenecker et al., 2019.

•Based on the temporal overlapping ranges of several species of the holoplanktonic mollusc assemblage of Cré, Janssen et al. (2008) concluded that this outcrop is early Pliocene (Zanclean) in age. Remains of other pelagic animals, such as whales (Estevens and Ávila, 2007) are also frequent at Cré.

Environment/lithology: coastal; siliciclastic sediments

• The fossils described here were found in a bed of calcarenites

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: All numbered and figured specimens are housed in the palaeontological collections of the Department of Biology of the University of the Azores (DBUA-F).

Primary reference: S. P. Ávila, R. S. Ramalho, and R. Vullo. 2012. Systematics, palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography of the Neogene fossil sharks from the Azores (Northeast Atlantic). Annales de Paléontologie 98:167-189 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/S. Ávila]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154113: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 27.01.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Lamnidae
"Cosmopolitodus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis
"Cosmopolitodus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis Agassiz 1838 white shark
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Megaselachus megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Megaselachus megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon