Bolinas Bay: Tortonian - Messinian, California
collected 1929

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Pimiento and Balk 2015
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California
Coordinates: 37.9° North, 122.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Tortonian - Messinian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Tortonian - Messinian
Age range of interval: 11.63 - 5.333 m.y. ago
Age estimate: 7.6 to 6.5 Ma (other)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Santa Cruz
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Age and Formation after Boessenecker et al 2019.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: mudstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Collection dates:1929
Metadata
Database number:152485
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:C. Pimiento
Modifier:M. Uhen
Created:2013-11-22 22:36:39 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2013-11-22 22:36:39
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
50617. 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]

Secondary references:

13595 R. W. Boessenecker, D. J. Eheret, D. J. Long, M. Churchill, E. Martin and S. J. Boessenecker. 2019. The Early Pliocene extinction of the mega-toothed shark Otodus megalodon: a view from the eastern North Pacific. PeerJ 7:e6088 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
49081 C. Pimiento and M. Balk. 2015. The extinct giant shark Carcharocles megalodon: A model for understanding deep-time body size trends of marine apex predators. [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento/C. Pimiento]