Where: Maryland (38.5° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 58.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Aquia Formation, Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
• nearly perfect oval patch of crushing teeth
Collected by Mrs. Doris H. Blake in 1935; reposited in the USNM
• The specimen was collected by Mrs. Doris H. Blake in 1935 and turned over to me for examination through the courtesy of Dr. S. F. Blake and Mr. C. W. Gilmore. It is catalogued in the Division of Vertebrate Paleontology of the United States National Museum as No. 13855.
Primary reference: G. S. Myers. 1936. A Third Record of the Albulid Fish Dixonina nemopiera Fowler, with Notes on an Albulid from the Eocene of Maryland. Copeia 1936(2):83-85 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 124191: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 07.02.2012, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
"Myliobatis copeanus" = Aetomylaeus dixoni2
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"Sphyrna prisca" = Cestracion prisca2
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"Odontaspis cuspidata" = Araloselachus cuspidatus2
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"Odontaspis elegans" = Striatolamia macrota2
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Reptilia | |
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Actinopteri | |
Albulidae indet. Bleeker 1859 bonefish |