Hey Guys,
I have been busy lately so my participation on the forum has gone down. I hope I can get be back online more during the summer. But today, I have got a question:
Where is the youngest Otodus (Carcharocles megalodon) known?
A lot of places seem to say the meg went extinct in the Pleistocene but a paper I read seemed to revise this to the latest Pliocene (2.6 million years ago was their number) using some sort of mathematical sorcery. What I want to know is, where are the megs? They should be extremely rare but present in late Pliocene Marine strata. The you youngest megs I’ve seen are from the Pisco which can get to 3 million years ago. Anyone have any younger, or heard of any younger? I would assume that such formations of that exact age are rare, so it would not surprise me if there are no younger megs. I’m just curious.