Cassino Beach: Calabrian, Brazil

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Netuma sp.
Mammalia - Cetacea - Pontoporiidae
Pontoporia blainvillei (Gervais and d'Orbigny 1844)
Actinopteri - Acanthuriformes - Sciaenidae
Pogonias cromis Cope 1869
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae
Galeocerdo cuvieri (Peron and LeSueur 1822)
original and current combination Galeocerdo cuvier
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinus sp. de Blainville 1816
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus 1758)
Isurus oxyrhynchus (Rafinesque 1810)
original and current combination Isurus oxyrinchus
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Carchariidae
Carcharias taurus Rafinesque 1810
Chondrichthyes - Squalomorphii - Hexanchidae
Notorhynchus cepedianus
Heptranchias perlo (Bonnaterre 1788)
original and current combination Squalus perlo
see common names

Geography
Country:Brazil
Coordinates: 32.4° South, 52.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.4° South, 52.1° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Calabrian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Calabrian
Age range of interval:1.80000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:lag unlithified conglomerate
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:foreshore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Barra do Chui
Database number:52644
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-08-14 09:14:48 Last modified:2006-01-30 14:23:02
Access level:the public Released:2005-08-14 09:14:48
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

14149. F. S. Buchmann and G. R. Filho. 1997. Fosseis de vertebrados marinhos do Pleistoceno Superior na Porcao sul da planicie costeira do Rio Grande Do Sul, Brasil. Notas Tecnicas 10:7-16 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]