Where: Cuba (23.1° N, 82.2° W: paleocoordinates 23.4° N, 78.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cojímar Formation, Burdigalian to Burdigalian (20.4 - 13.8 Ma)
• Iturralde-Vinent and MacPhee, 1996
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. Iturralde-Vinent, G. Hubbell, and R. Rojas. 1996. Catalogue of Cuban fossil Elasmobranchii (Paleocene to Pliocene) and paleogeographic implications of their Lower to Middle Miocene occurrence. Boletín de la Sociedad Jamaicana de Geología 31:7-21 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 159595: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 05.08.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Carcharodon carcharias, "Isurus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis
Carcharodon carcharias Linnaeus 1758 great white shark This species first appeared in the late Miocene (Ehret et al. 2012) and hence, this occurrence is dubious
"Isurus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis Agassiz 1838 white shark | |
"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon | |
Carcharias taurus Rafinesque 1810 sand shark | |
Hemipristis serra Agassiz 1835 ground shark | |
"Galeocerdo contortus" = Physogaleus contortus
"Galeocerdo contortus" = Physogaleus contortus Gibbes 1847 requiem shark | |
"Sphyrna prisca" = Cestracion prisca
"Sphyrna prisca" = Cestracion prisca Agassiz 1843 bullhead shark |