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Meridiania

Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)106726https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=106726
Rankgenus (PBDB)
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Chondrichthyes : Myliobatiformes : Myliobatidae : Meridiania
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
classChondrichthyesHuxley 1880
subclassElasmobranchiiBonaparte 1838
infraclassEuselachii
-NeoselachiiCompagno 1977
-Batoidea
orderMyliobatiformesCompagno 1973
suborderMyliobatoideiCompagno 1973
familyMyliobatidaeBonaparte 1838
genusMeridianiaCase 1994
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Meridianiagenusbelongs to Dasyatidaestated without evidenceCase, 1994
Meridianiagenusbelongs to Myliobatidaestated without evidenceCase et al., 2015
Taxon Size (PBDB)2
First Recorded Appearance56.0 - 50.3 Ma
Eocene
Environmentmarine (based on Vertebrata)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Myliobatiformes)
Dietcarnivore (based on Myliobatiformes)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Meridiania convexa
species
listed (PBDB)256.0 Ma
Paleocene
55.8 Ma
Eocene

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1994Meridiania Case
2010Meridiania Cicimurri p. 100
2015Meridiania Case et al. p. 1129
2019Meridiania Ebersole et al. p. 138

References

Case G. R. (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
Case G. R., Cook T. D., et al (2015) A new elasmobranch assemblage from the early Eocene (Ypresian) Fishburne Formation of Berkeley County, South Carolina, USA, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 52, 1121-1136 doi:10.1139/cjes-2015-0061
Ebersole J. A., Cicimurri D. J., et al (2019) Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the elasmobranchs and bony fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) of the lower-to-middle Eocene (Ypresian to Bartonian) Claiborne Group in Alabama, USA, including an analysis of otoliths, European Journal of Taxonomy 585, 1-274 doi:10.5852/ejt.2019.585
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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