Dauphin Island: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Alabama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
- Aetobatidae
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Aetobatus sp.
Blainville 1816
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Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Hemigaleidae
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Hemipristis serra
Agassiz 1835
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Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Galeocerdidae
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Galeocerdo cuvier
Peron and LeSueur 1822
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Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Carcharhinidae
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Carcharhinus longimanus
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Carcharhinus sp.
de Blainville 1816
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Carcharhinus leucas
(Valenciennes 1839)
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Carcharhinus cf. plumbeus
(Nardo 1827)
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Carcharhinus cf. obscurus
(Le Sueur 1818)
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Negaprion brevirostris
Poey 1868
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Carchariidae
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Carcharias taurus
Rafinesque 1810
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Lamnidae
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Cosmopolitodus hastalis
(Agassiz 1838)
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| recombined as Carcharodon hastalis | |||||||
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Carcharodon carcharias
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Actinopteri
- Tetraodontiformes
- Diodontidae
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Diodontidae indet.
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Alabama | County: | Mobile |
| Coordinates: | 30.2° North, 88.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 30.2° North, 88.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| 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: | 187584 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2017-08-02 19:36:28 | Last modified: | 2017-08-02 19:36:28 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-08-02 19:36:28 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 62969. | J. A. Ebersole, S. M. Ebersole, and D. J. Cicimurri. 2017. The occurrence of early Pleistocene marine fish remains from the Gulf Coast of Mobile County, Alabama, USA. Palaeodiversity 10(1):97-115 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |