Bashi Formation, Meridian: Early/Lower Eocene, Mississippi
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
|
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Otodontidae
|
|||||||
|
Cretolamna cf. aschersoni
|
|||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Mississippi | County: | Lauderdale County |
| Coordinates: | 32.4° North, 88.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.5° North, 74.1° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Ypresian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Eocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 56.00000 - 47.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Bashi |
Lithology and environment
| Lithology description: unconsolidated shell-sands | |
| Environment: | estuary/bay |
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 67459 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Kriwet | Enterer: | W. Glaeser |
| Modifier: | W. Glaeser | ||
| Created: | 2006-11-21 06:35:55 | Last modified: | 2007-01-29 07:45:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-11-21 06:35:55 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 19764. | G. R. Case and J. J. Leggett. 1999. Cretolamna cf. C. aschersoni (Stromer) (Neoselachii: Cretoxyrhinidae),from the Late Paleocene/Early Eocene of Mississippi, USA, with Comparisons to Moroccan Fauna. The Mosasaur - The Journal of the DVPS 6:25-28 [J. Kriwet/W. Glaeser/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 18130 | 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] |