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
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 | |
"Conger meridies" = Gnathophis meridies
"Conger meridies" = Gnathophis meridies Frizzell and Lamber 1962 conger eel | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Heterodontus sowasheense n. sp.
Heterodontus sowasheense n. sp. Case 1994 bullhead shark | |
Galeorhinus affini school shark
Galeorhinus minor Agassiz 1835 school shark | |
"Scyliorhinus gilberti" = Premontreia (Oxyscyllium) gilberti, Galeus sp., Abdounia subulidens, Abdounia beaugei, Microscyliorhinus leggetti n. gen. n. sp.
"Scyliorhinus gilberti" = Premontreia (Oxyscyllium) gilberti Casier 1946 cat shark
Galeus sp. Schaeffer 1760 cat shark
Abdounia subulidens cat shark
Abdounia beaugei Arambourg 1935 cat shark
Microscyliorhinus leggetti n. gen. n. sp. cat shark | |
Physogaleus americanus n. sp. requiem shark
Physogaleus tertius requiem shark | |
Ginglymostoma subafricanum Arambourg 1952 nurse shark
Nebrius thielensis Winkler 1874 nurse shark | |
Odontaspis borodini n. sp., Odontaspis speyeri, Odontaspis winkleri, Pseudodontaspis lauderdalensis n. sp., "Pseudodontaspis mississippiensis n. sp." = Brachycarcharias mississippiensis
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 | |
Anomotodon sp. Arambourg 1952 goblin shark
Striatolamia macrota Agassiz 1838 goblin shark | |
Cretolamna aschersoni mackerel shark
Cretolamna lerichei mackerel shark | |
Eotorpedo jaeckeli torpedo | |
Platyrhina dockeryi n. sp.
Platyrhina dockeryi n. sp. Case 1994 guitarfish | |
Rhinobatos sp. Link 1790 guitarfish | |
Dasyatis tricuspidatus Casier 1946 whiptail stingray | |
"Myliobatis dixoni" = Aetomylaeus dixoni, Archaeomanta melenhorsti, Burnhamia fetahi, Burnhamia daviesi, Meridiania convexa n. gen. n. sp.
"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 | |
Coupatezia woutersi Cappetta 1982 stingray |