Eutaw Formation, Georgia (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Chattahoochee County County, Georgia (32.4° N, 84.9° W: paleocoordinates 32.3° N, 54.1° W)

When: Eutaw Formation, Early/Lower Santonian to Early/Lower Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone and lithified mudstone

• Relatively clean sandstones; argillaceous, marly, sandstones; and sandy, marly mudstones.

•The vertebrate-tooth bearing beds at the primary collecting site are mostly argillaceous,

•marly sandstones deposited in marshy and lagoonal back-barrier environments of deposition.

Primary reference: G. R. Case, D. R. Schwimmer, P.D. Borodin and J.J. Leggett. 2001. A new selachian fauna from the Eutaw Formation (Upper Cretaceous/Early to Middle Santonian) of Chattahoochee County, Georgia. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 261(Lfg. 4-6):83-102 [J. Kriwet/W. Glaeser]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61769: authorized by Juergen Kriwet, entered by Wolfgang Glaeser on 29.06.2006

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch
 Hybodontiformes - Lonchidiidae
"Lissodus babulskii" = Lonchidion babulskii
"Lissodus babulskii" = Lonchidion babulskii Cappetta and Case 1975 elasmobranch
 Hybodontiformes - Ptychodontidae
Ptychodus mortoni Mantell 1836 elasmobranch
 Squatiniformes - Squatinidae
Squatina hassei Leriche 1929 angel shark
 Orectolobiformes - Hemiscylliidae
Chiloscyllium sp. Müller and Henle 1837 carpet shark
 Orectolobiformes -
Columbusia fragilis n. gen. n. sp.
Columbusia fragilis n. gen. n. sp. Case 2001 carpet shark
 Lamniformes - Pseudoscapanorhynchidae
"Cretodus borodini" = Protolamna borodini
"Cretodus borodini" = Protolamna borodini Cappetta and Case 1975 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
"Scapanorhynchus raphiodon" = Scapanorhynchus rhaphiodon, "Microdontaspis tenuis n. gen. n. sp." = Scapanorhynchus tenuis
"Scapanorhynchus raphiodon" = Scapanorhynchus rhaphiodon Agassiz 1843 goblin shark
"Microdontaspis tenuis n. gen. n. sp." = Scapanorhynchus tenuis Case et al. 2001 goblin shark
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax falcatus Agassiz 1843 crow shark
 Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae
 Rajiformes - Ptychotrygonidae
Ptychotrygon sp. Jaekel 1894 ray
Ptychotrygon eutawensis n. sp. Case et al. 2001 ray
 Rajiformes -
Erguitaia rugosa n. sp. ray
Protoplatyrhina renae Case 1978 guitarfish
Pseudohypolophus ellipsis n. sp. Case et al. 2001 guitarfish