Grand Bay 13 (Miocene to of Grenada)

Also known as XU013

Where: Grenada (12.5° N, 61.4° W: paleocoordinates 12.5° N, 61.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Kendance Formation, Early/Lower Miocene to Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 11.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology:

• Volcaniclastic sandstones with some more carbonate-rich horizons. The contact with the underlying Belmont Formation is unconformable; the Kendeace Formation grades upwards into the carbonate-rich Carriacou Formation

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the FLMNH

Primary reference: R. W. Portell, G. Hubbell, S. Donovan, D.A.T. Harper, and R. Pickerill. 2008. Miocene sharks in the Kendeace and Grand Bay formations of Carriacou, The Grenadines, Lesser Antilles. Caribbean Journal of Science 44(3):279-286 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 162023: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 17.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinus obscurus Le Sueur 1818 requiem shark
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon
Deposited in the Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum, Leiden