Bissex Hill (Neogene of Barbados)

Where: Barbados (13.2° N, 59.6° W: paleocoordinates 13.1° N, 58.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Neogene (23.0 - 2.6 Ma)

• Probably late Miocene according with museum label

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• conglomerate band

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

• H. W. Feilden 1982. P7389

Primary reference: C. Pimiento. 2014. Carcharocles megalodon unpublished collections from Natural History Museums around the world. [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento/C. Pimiento]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 163202: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 16.10.2014

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon