Fazenda, north of Tarrafal, Santiago: Piacenzian - Gelasian, Cape Verde

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Cape Verde
Coordinates: 15.3° North, 23.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene - Quaternary Epoch: Pliocene - Pleistocene
Stage: Piacenzian - Gelasian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Piacenzian - Gelasian
Age range of interval: 3.6 - 1.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: On Santiago, fossiliferous calcarenites are associated with the Orgãos Formation and the Pico da Antónia Complex, and the described area north of Tarrafal is mapped as the latter. According to Johnson et al. (2012), the Flamengos Formation, which underlies the Orgãos Formation, represents an early phase of shield building, entirely submarine, constrained to dates between 3.9 and 4.6 Ma. The Pico da Antónia Eruptive Complex denotes a subsequent, mostly subaerial shield-building phase. This complex includes a lower member composed of thick pillow lavas dated as old as 3.25 ± 0.05 Ma and an upper member with both subaqueous and subaerial flows dated not younger than 2.19 ± 0.12 Ma. If the tooth comes from the Pico da Antónia, which is the mapped unit in the vicinity, this would indicate a Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene age for the tooth (unless reworked).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:open shallow subtidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:115645
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:J. Karr
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-09-02 15:57:10 Last modified:2025-09-11 16:14:11
Access level:the public Released:2011-09-02 15:57:10
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
93028. J. J. Cabral and C. J. Hazevoet. 2023. On teeth of Otodus megalodon (Lamniformes: Otodontidae) from Cabo Verde, eastern Atlantic. Zoologia Caboverdiana 11:36-38 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]