Where: England, United Kingdom (52.0° N, 1.4° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 51.6° N, 1.9° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Red Crag Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• Age of the Red Crag Formation based on Kuhlmann et al. (2006)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1852; reposited in the BMNH
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 Carcharocles megalodon unpublished collections from Natural History Museums around the world.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 152484: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 22.11.2013, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Castor veterior n. sp.
Castor veterior n. sp. Lankester 1864 beaver | |
Chondrichthyes | |
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
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