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
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 | |
"Cosmopolitodus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis
"Cosmopolitodus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis Agassiz 1838 white shark | |
"Megaselachus megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Megaselachus megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon |