College Park drainage ditch (Oligocene of the United States)
Where: Berkeley County, South Carolina (33.0° N, 80.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 74.8° W)
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• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Bed 2 Member (Chandler Bridge Formation), Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. H. Geisler, M. W. Colbert, and J. L. Carew. 2014. A new fossil species supports an early origin for toothed whale echolocation. Nature [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 154905: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.03.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia | |
Cotylocara macei n. gen. n. sp.
Cotylocara macei n. gen. n. sp. Geisler et al. 2014 toothed whale |