Dauphin Island (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Mobile County, Alabama (30.2° N, 88.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.2° N, 88.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. A. Ebersole, S. M. Ebersole, and D. J. Cicimurri. 2017. The occurrence of early Pleistocene marine fish remains from the Gulf Coast of Mobile County, Alabama, USA. Palaeodiversity 10(1):97-115 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 187584: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.08.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Tetraodontiformes - Diodontidae
Chondrichthyes
 Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae
Hemipristis serra Agassiz 1835 ground shark
 Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae
Galeocerdo cuvier Peron and LeSueur 1822 tiger shark
 Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Negaprion brevirostris Poey 1868 lemon shark
Carcharhinus sp. de Blainville 1816 requiem shark
Carcharhinus leucas Valenciennes 1839 requiem shark
Carcharhinus cf. obscurus Le Sueur 1818 requiem shark
Carcharhinus cf. plumbeus Nardo 1827 requiem shark
 Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Carcharodon carcharias, "Cosmopolitodus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis
Carcharodon carcharias Linnaeus 1758 great white shark
"Cosmopolitodus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis Agassiz 1838 white shark
 Lamniformes - Carchariidae
Carcharias taurus Rafinesque 1810 sand shark
 Myliobatiformes - Aetobatidae
Aetobatus sp. Blainville 1816 stingray