Bashi Formation, Meridian (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Lauderdale County County, Mississippi (32.4° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 74.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Bashi Formation, Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marginal marine

• concretionary marlstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: G. R. Case. 1994. Fossil fish remains from the Late Paleocene Tuscahoma and Early Eocene Bashi Formations of Meridian, Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Part I. Selachians. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 230(Lfg. 4-6):97-138 [J. Kriwet/W. Glaeser/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62890: authorized by Juergen Kriwet, entered by Wolfgang Glaeser on 01.08.2006, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Anguilliformes - Congridae
"Conger meridies" = Gnathophis meridies
"Conger meridies" = Gnathophis meridies Frizzell and Lamber 1962 conger eel
Chondrichthyes
 Heterodontiformes - Heterodontidae
Heterodontus sowasheense n. sp. Case 1994 bullhead shark
 Carcharhiniformes - Triakidae
Galeorhinus affini school shark
Galeorhinus minor Agassiz 1835 school shark
 Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
"Scyliorhinus gilberti" = Premontreia (Oxyscyllium) gilberti Casier 1946 cat shark
Galeus sp. Schaeffer 1760 cat shark
Abdounia beaugei Arambourg 1935 cat shark
Microscyliorhinus leggetti n. gen. n. sp. cat shark
 Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Physogaleus americanus n. sp. requiem shark
Physogaleus tertius requiem shark
 Orectolobiformes - Ginglymostomatidae
Ginglymostoma subafricanum Arambourg 1952 nurse shark
Nebrius thielensis Winkler 1874 nurse shark
 Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
Odontaspis borodini n. sp. sand tiger shark
Odontaspis speyeri sand tiger shark
Odontaspis winkleri Leriche 1905 sand tiger shark
Pseudodontaspis lauderdalensis n. sp. Case 1994 sand tiger shark
"Pseudodontaspis mississippiensis n. sp." = Brachycarcharias mississippiensis Case 1994 sand tiger shark
 Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Anomotodon sp. Arambourg 1952 goblin shark
Striatolamia macrota Agassiz 1838 goblin shark
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Cretolamna aschersoni mackerel shark
Cretolamna lerichei mackerel shark
 Torpediniformes - Torpedinidae
 Rajiformes - Platyrhinidae
Platyrhina dockeryi n. sp. Case 1994 guitarfish
 Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae
Rhinobatos sp. Link 1790 guitarfish
 Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae
Dasyatis tricuspidatus Casier 1946 whiptail stingray
 Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
"Myliobatis dixoni" = Aetomylaeus dixoni Agassiz 1843 eagle ray
Archaeomanta melenhorsti Herman 1979 eagle ray
Burnhamia fetahi Cappetta 1985 eagle ray
Burnhamia daviesi Woodward 1889 eagle ray
Meridiania convexa n. gen. n. sp. Case 1994 eagle ray
 Myliobatiformes -
Coupatezia woutersi Cappetta 1982 stingray