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)

• coordinate stated in text

• 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

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Xenorophidae
Cotylocara macei n. gen. n. sp.
Cotylocara macei n. gen. n. sp. Geisler et al. 2014 toothed whale