Limehouse Branch 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

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chandler Bridge Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• Basal bed of the Chandler Bridge Formation, late Oligocene (ca. 24–27 Ma) in age [5].

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; sandstone

• deposited in a nearshore marine or restricted bay environment

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Billy Palmer

Primary reference: M. Churchill, M. Martinez-Cáceres, C. Muizon, J. Mnieckowski, and J. H. Geisler. 2016. The Origin of High-Frequency Hearing in Whales. Current Biology 26:1-6 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 180866: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 04.08.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• fossils in the Charleston Museum
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Mammalia
 Cetacea - Xenorophidae
Echovenator sandersi n. gen. n. sp.
Echovenator sandersi n. gen. n. sp. Churchill et al. 2016 toothed whale