Where: Okinawa, Japan (25.9° N, 131.3° E: paleocoordinates 25.9° N, 132.0° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Daito Formation, Zanclean to Zanclean (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• Age after Boessenecker et al., 2019, who reported the collection number as 152404, which is a mistake.
•From the text: latest Pliocene ? or more probably Pleistocene
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; framestone and rudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: The Holotype is stored in the Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Tohoku Imperial University; Reg. No. 56624.
Primary reference: H. Yabe and T. Sugiyama. 1935. Notes on a Fossil Shark's Tooth Found in the Daito Limestone of Kita-Daito-Zima, Borodino Islands. Proceedings of the Imperial Academy 11(4):149-151 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 152398: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 20.11.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon |