Where: Charleston County, South Carolina (32.9° N, 80.1° W: paleocoordinates 32.8° N, 73.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: NP24 foram zone, Ashley Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

• upper Rupelian

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•The Ashley Formation is NP24 in age, mol- lusks from that subunit having yielded strontium isotope dates of 29.1–29.2 Ma (Weems et al., 2006). The holotype of Ashleycetus planicapitis was found near the base of the Ashley Formation on the east flank of an uplifted structure called the Fort Bull Bulge by Weems and Lemon (1984).

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. E. Sanders and J. H. Geisler. 2015. A new basal odontocete from the upper Rupelian of South Carolina, U.S.A., with contributions to the systematics of Xenorophus and Mirocetus (Mammalia, Cetacea). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e890107 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 165736: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 27.01.2015

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