Seat Pleasant (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Prince Georges County, Maryland (38.9° N, 76.9° W: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 46.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Monmouth Group, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. W. Berry. 1916. Systematic Paleontology: Vertebrata. In W. Clark (ed.), Maryland Geological Survey: Upper Cretaceous 347-361 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 127194: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 03.05.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Aulopiformes - Enchodontidae
Enchodus dirus Leidy 1857
Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
"Corax pristodontus" = Squalicorax pristodontus
"Corax pristodontus" = Squalicorax pristodontus Agassiz 1835 crow shark
 Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
"Lamna cuspidata" = Araloselachus cuspidatus
"Lamna cuspidata" = Araloselachus cuspidatus Agassiz 1843 sand tiger shark
 Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
"Lamna elegans" = Striatolamia macrota
"Lamna elegans" = Striatolamia macrota Agassiz 1838 goblin shark
 Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
"Myliobatis obesus" = Aetomylaeus dixoni
"Myliobatis obesus" = Aetomylaeus dixoni Agassiz 1843 eagle ray