Case's estuary number 1 site (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Lauderdale County, Mississippi (32.4° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 74.1° W)
When: Tuscahoma Formation, Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, glauconitic marl
• tooth from the mouth of the living fish, which drifts down to the bottom of the river and is buried in the sands.
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: G. Case. 1986. The bony fishes (Teleosts) of the Tuscahoma and Bashi formations, early Eocene, Meridian, Lauderdale County, Mississippi. 6(4):2-4 [M. Uhen/A. Saeed]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 164192: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Ahmed Saeed on 25.11.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Actinopteri | |
Pycnodus bowerbanki Egerton 1877 | |
Brychaetus muelleri Woodward 1901 arowana | |
Albula oweni Agassiz 1844 bonefish
Albula eppsi White and Frost 1931 bonefish | |
Phyllodus toliapicus Agassiz 1839
Egertonia isodonta Cocchi 1866 | |
"Cybium proosti" = Palaeocybium proosti
"Cybium proosti" = Palaeocybium proosti Storms 1895 | |
Trichiurides sagittidens Winkler 1874 |