El Yacural (Pliocene of Venezuela)

Where: Venezuela (11.9° N, 70.0° W: paleocoordinates 11.8° N, 69.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: El Hato Member (Paraguana Formation), Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• Age after Boessenecker et al., 2019.

•The geological unit from which the specimens were obtained is the the lower member (i.e. El Hato) of the Paraguaná Formation of Venezuela. This unit is early Pliocene in age, based on the Léxico estratigráfico de Venezuela (1997).

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; brown shale

• Near-shore, shallow bay and littoral lagoon
• light brown marine shale

Size class: macrofossils

• Carcharodon megalodon tooth embedded in cetacean vertebra.

Primary reference: O. A. Aguilera, L. Garcia, and M. A. Cozzuol. 2008. Giant-toothed white sharks and cetacean trophic interaction from the Pliocene Caribbean Paraguan6 Formation. Palaontologische Zeitschrift 82(2):204-208 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 107489: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 09.04.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon
Mammalia
 Placentalia -
Cetacea indet. Brisson 1762 whale