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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
"Galeocerdo contortus" = Physogaleus contortus
"Galeocerdo contortus" = Physogaleus contortus Gibbes 1847 requiem shark | |
Hemipristis serra Agassiz 1835 ground shark | |
"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon | |
"Isurus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis, Carcharodon carcharias
"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
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Carcharias taurus Rafinesque 1810 sand shark | |
"Sphyrna prisca" = Cestracion prisca
"Sphyrna prisca" = Cestracion prisca Agassiz 1843 bullhead shark |