East Coast Aggregates: Zanclean, Florida
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Otodontidae
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Carcharodon megalodon
(Agassiz 1835)
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| Youngest Florida record of C. megalodon. See Pimiento and Balk | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Florida | County: | Putnam |
| Coordinates: | 29.6° North, 81.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 29.7° North, 80.9° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Zanclean | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Zanclean | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.333 - 3.6 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 4.2 to 3.9 Ma (other) |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | lagoonal |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Lagerst�tten type: | conservation |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Abundance in sediment: | common |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | all macrofossils,some genera |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | FLMNH |
Metadata
| Also known as: | PU011 | ||
| Database number: | 152381 | ||
| Authorizer: | C. Jaramillo | Enterer: | C. Pimiento |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | ||
| Created: | 2013-11-19 14:28:40 | Last modified: | 2019-02-19 12:38:04 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-11-19 14:28:40 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 36479. | W. A. Allmon, S. D. Emslie, D. S. Jones and G. S. Morgan. 1996. Late Neogene Oceanographic Change along Florida's West Coast: Evidence and Mechanisms. Journal of Geology 104:143-162 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
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] |