Bonares-Casa del Pino (Pliocene of Spain)

Where: Huelva, Spain (37.5° N, 6.4° W: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 6.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Arenas de Huelva Formation, Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• Age after Boessenecker et al., 2019.

•Age stated in text, based on González-Delgado et al., (2004).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• Repository: Colección de Paleontología de la Universidad de Salamanca, España (PALUSAL)

Primary reference: E. X. M. García, M. Telles-Antunes, A. Cáceres-Balbino, F. Ruiz-Muñoz, and J. Civis-Llovera. 2009. Los tiburones Lamniformes (Chondrichthyes, Galeomorphii) del Plioceno inferior de la Formación Arenas de Huelva, suroeste de la cuenca del Guadalquivir, España. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 26(3):674-686 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 151888: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 15.10.2013

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Carchariidae
Carcharias taurus Rafinesque 1810 sand shark
 Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Isurus desori, "Isurus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis
Isurus desori Sismonda 1849 mackerel shark
"Isurus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis Agassiz 1838 white shark
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Parotodus benedeni, "Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
Parotodus benedeni Le Hon 1871 mackerel shark
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon