Where: Noord-Brabant, Netherlands (51.5° N, 5.8° E: paleocoordinates 51.7° N, 5.0° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Breda Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Deposited in Harold van der Steen
Primary reference: F. H. Mollen. 2010. A partial rostrum of the porbeagle shark Lamna nasus (Lamniformes, Lamnidae) from the Miocene of the North Sea Basin and the taxonomic importance of rostral morphology in extinct sharks. Geologica Belgica 13(1-2):61-76 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento]more details
PaleoDB collection 162679: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 01.10.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Aetobatus arcuatus Agassiz 1843 eagle ray
Myliobatis sp. Cuvier 1816 eagle ray | |
Dasyatis sp. Rafinesque 1810 whiptail stingray | |
Anotodus retroflexus elasmobranch | |
Squatina sp. Dumeril 1806 angel shark | |
Squalus acanthias Linnaeus 1758 spiny dogfish | |
"Megaselachus megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Megaselachus megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon | |
Cetorhinus maximus Gunner 1765 basking shark | |
Carcharias sp. Rafinesque 1810 sand shark | |
Isurus oxyrinchus, Carcharodon escheri, "Cosmopolitodus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis, Lamna nasus
Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque 1810 mackerel shark
Carcharodon escheri Agassiz 1843 white shark
"Cosmopolitodus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis Agassiz 1838 white shark
Lamna nasus mackerel shark | |
Galeorhinus sp. de Blainville and Prévost 1816 school shark
Mustelus sp. hound shark | |
Carcharhinus acanthodon requiem shark | |
Galeocerdo aduncus Agassiz 1835 tiger shark | |
Scyliorhinus sp. Blainville 1816 cat shark | |
Raja sp. Linnaeus 1758 skate | |
"Notorynchus primigenius" = Notorhynchus primigenius, Hexanchus griseus
"Notorynchus primigenius" = Notorhynchus primigenius Agassiz 1835 sevengill shark
Hexanchus griseus sixgill shark | |
Pristiophorus sp. Bleeker 1859 saw shark | |
Torpedo sp. Houttuyn 1764 torpedo |