Pohang Basin (Miocene of South Korea)

Where: South Korea (36.1° N, 129.4° E: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 126.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Duho Formation (Yeonil Group), Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; brown, gray mudstone

• brownish dark grey mudstones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C.-g. Yun. 2021. First deep-sea shark fossil teeth from the Miocene of South Korea. Zoodiversity 55(3):225-232 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 221132: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 12.07.2021, edited by Cathryn McVicker

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Mitsukurina cf. lineata
Mitsukurina cf. lineata Probst 1879 goblin shark
 Lamniformes - Lamnidae
"Cosmopolitodus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis
"Cosmopolitodus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis Agassiz 1838 white shark
Duho Formation
 Squaliformes - Dalatiidae
Dalatias licha, Dalatias cf. licha
Dalatias licha Bonnaterre 1788 shark
Dalatias cf. licha Bonnaterre 1788 shark