Tejar Consuelo quarry, cuban sharks (Miocene to of Cuba)

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

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Heterodontiformes - Heterodontidae
"Sphyrna prisca" = Cestracion prisca
"Sphyrna prisca" = Cestracion prisca Agassiz 1843 bullhead shark
 Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae
Hemipristis serra Agassiz 1835 ground shark
 Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
"Galeocerdo contortus" = Physogaleus contortus
"Galeocerdo contortus" = Physogaleus contortus Gibbes 1847 requiem shark
 Lamniformes - Carchariidae
Carcharias taurus Rafinesque 1810 sand shark
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon
 Lamniformes - Lamnidae
"Isurus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis Agassiz 1838 white shark
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