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 political unit

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

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay

• unconsolidated shell-sands

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. R. Case and J. J. Leggett. 1999. Cretolamna cf. C. aschersoni (Stromer) (Neoselachii: Cretoxyrhinidae),from the Late Paleocene/Early Eocene of Mississippi, USA, with Comparisons to Moroccan Fauna. The Mosasaur - The Journal of the DVPS 6:25-28 [J. Kriwet/W. Glaeser/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67459: authorized by Juergen Kriwet, entered by Wolfgang Glaeser on 21.11.2006

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae