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 | |
Coupatezia woutersi Cappetta 1982 stingray | |
Dasyatis tricuspidatus Casier 1946 whiptail stingray | |
Burnhamia fetahi, Burnhamia daviesi, Archaeomanta melenhorsti, "Myliobatis dixoni" = Aetomylaeus dixoni, Meridiania convexa n. gen. n. sp.
Burnhamia fetahi Cappetta 1985 eagle ray
Burnhamia daviesi Woodward 1889 eagle ray
Archaeomanta melenhorsti Herman 1979 eagle ray
"Myliobatis dixoni" = Aetomylaeus dixoni Agassiz 1843 eagle ray
Meridiania convexa n. gen. n. sp. Case 1994 eagle ray | |
Platyrhina dockeryi n. sp.
Platyrhina dockeryi n. sp. Case 1994 guitarfish | |
Rhinobatos sp. Link 1790 guitarfish | |
Eotorpedo jaeckeli torpedo | |
Galeorhinus affini school shark
Galeorhinus minor Agassiz 1835 school shark | |
Galeus sp., Microscyliorhinus leggetti n. gen. n. sp., Abdounia subulidens, Abdounia beaugei, "Scyliorhinus gilberti" = Premontreia (Oxyscyllium) gilberti
Galeus sp. Schaeffer 1760 cat shark
Microscyliorhinus leggetti n. gen. n. sp. cat shark
Abdounia subulidens cat shark
Abdounia beaugei Arambourg 1935 cat shark
"Scyliorhinus gilberti" = Premontreia (Oxyscyllium) gilberti Casier 1946 cat shark | |
Physogaleus americanus n. sp. requiem shark
Physogaleus tertius requiem shark | |
Nebrius thielensis Winkler 1874 nurse shark
Ginglymostoma subafricanum Arambourg 1952 nurse shark | |
"Pseudodontaspis mississippiensis n. sp." = Brachycarcharias mississippiensis, Pseudodontaspis lauderdalensis n. sp., Odontaspis borodini n. sp., Odontaspis speyeri, Odontaspis winkleri
"Pseudodontaspis mississippiensis n. sp." = Brachycarcharias mississippiensis Case 1994 sand tiger shark
Pseudodontaspis lauderdalensis n. sp. Case 1994 sand tiger shark
Odontaspis borodini n. sp. sand tiger shark
Odontaspis speyeri sand tiger shark
Odontaspis winkleri Leriche 1905 sand tiger shark | |
Anomotodon sp. Arambourg 1952 goblin shark
Striatolamia macrota Agassiz 1838 goblin shark | |
Cretolamna aschersoni mackerel shark
Cretolamna lerichei mackerel shark | |
Heterodontus sowasheense n. sp.
Heterodontus sowasheense n. sp. Case 1994 bullhead shark |