Where: California (37.9° N, 122.7° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 120.2° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Santa Cruz Formation, Tortonian to Tortonian (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• Age and Formation after Boessenecker et al 2019.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1929; reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: D. S. Jordan and H. Hanibal. 1923. Fossil sharks and rays of the Pacific slope of North America. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 22:27-63 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 152485: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 22.11.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon |