Yazoo Clay: Late/Upper Eocene, Louisiana

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae
Galeocerdo alabamensis Leriche 1942
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Abdounia enniskilleni (White 1956)
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinus gibbesi (Woodward 1889)
recombined as Carcharhinus gibbesii
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Isurus praecursor Thurmond and Jones 1981
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Louisiana
Coordinates: 32.0° North, 92.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.7° North, 84.2° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Late/Upper Eocene
Age range of interval:37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: claystone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:163744
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:C. Peredo
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2014-11-10 14:02:32 Last modified:2014-11-10 14:02:32
Access level:the public Released:2014-11-10 14:02:32
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
53398. G. L. Stringer and L. King. 2012. Late Eocene shark coprolites from the Yazoo Clay in northeastern Louisiana. Bulletin - New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science 57:275-309 [M. Uhen/C. Peredo]