PBDB Collection

Bashi Formation, Meridian (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Lauderdale County County, Mississippi (32.4° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 74.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Bashi Formation, Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marginal marine

• concretionary marlstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62890: authorized by Juergen Kriwet, entered by Wolfgang Glaeser on 01.08.2006, edited by Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

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Actinopteri
Anguilliformes - Congridae	"Conger meridies" = Gnathophis meridies "Conger meridies" = Gnathophis meridies Frizzell and Lamber 1962 conger eel
Chondrichthyes
Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae	Burnhamia daviesi, Burnhamia fetahi, Archaeomanta melenhorsti, "Myliobatis dixoni" = Aetomylaeus dixoni, Meridiania convexa n. gen. n. sp. Burnhamia daviesi Woodward 1889 eagle ray Burnhamia fetahi Cappetta 1985 eagle ray Archaeomanta melenhorsti Herman 1979 eagle ray "Myliobatis dixoni" = Aetomylaeus dixoni Agassiz 1843 eagle ray Meridiania convexa n. gen. n. sp. Case 1994 eagle ray
Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae	Dasyatis tricuspidatus Dasyatis tricuspidatus Casier 1946 whiptail stingray
Myliobatiformes -	Coupatezia woutersi Coupatezia woutersi Cappetta 1982 stingray
Torpediniformes - Torpedinidae	Eotorpedo jaeckeli Eotorpedo jaeckeli torpedo
Heterodontiformes - Heterodontidae	Heterodontus sowasheense n. sp. Heterodontus sowasheense n. sp. Case 1994 bullhead shark
Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae	Rhinobatos sp. Rhinobatos sp. Link 1790 guitarfish
Rajiformes - Platyrhinidae	Platyrhina dockeryi n. sp. Platyrhina dockeryi n. sp. Case 1994 guitarfish
Lamniformes - Odontaspididae	Pseudodontaspis lauderdalensis n. sp., "Pseudodontaspis mississippiensis n. sp." = Brachycarcharias mississippiensis, Odontaspis borodini n. sp., Odontaspis speyeri, Odontaspis winkleri Pseudodontaspis lauderdalensis n. sp. Case 1994 sand tiger shark "Pseudodontaspis mississippiensis n. sp." = Brachycarcharias mississippiensis Case 1994 sand tiger shark Odontaspis borodini n. sp. sand tiger shark Odontaspis speyeri sand tiger shark Odontaspis winkleri Leriche 1905 sand tiger shark
Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae	Striatolamia macrota, Anomotodon sp. Striatolamia macrota Agassiz 1838 goblin shark Anomotodon sp. Arambourg 1952 goblin shark
Lamniformes - Otodontidae	Cretolamna aschersoni, Cretolamna lerichei Cretolamna aschersoni mackerel shark Cretolamna lerichei mackerel shark
Orectolobiformes - Ginglymostomatidae	Ginglymostoma subafricanum, Nebrius thielensis Ginglymostoma subafricanum Arambourg 1952 nurse shark Nebrius thielensis Winkler 1874 nurse shark
Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae	Physogaleus americanus n. sp., Physogaleus tertius Physogaleus americanus n. sp. requiem shark Physogaleus tertius requiem shark
Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae	Abdounia subulidens, Abdounia beaugei, "Scyliorhinus gilberti" = Premontreia (Oxyscyllium) gilberti, Microscyliorhinus leggetti n. gen. n. sp., Galeus sp. Abdounia subulidens cat shark Abdounia beaugei Arambourg 1935 cat shark "Scyliorhinus gilberti" = Premontreia (Oxyscyllium) gilberti Casier 1946 cat shark Microscyliorhinus leggetti n. gen. n. sp. cat shark Galeus sp. Schaeffer 1760 cat shark
Carcharhiniformes - Triakidae	Galeorhinus affini, Galeorhinus minor Galeorhinus affini school shark Galeorhinus minor Agassiz 1835 school shark