Morgan River, Miocene (Neogene of the United States)

Where: Beaufort County, South Carolina (32.5° N, 80.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 78.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Hemphillian (10.3 - 4.9 Ma)

• stratigraphic unit undetermined, but possibly Ebenezer Formation or Wabasso beds

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; phosphatic, sandy sandstone

• quartzose and phophatic calcarenite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. B. Albright, A. E. Sanders, R. E. Weems, D. J. Cicimurri, and J. L. Knight. 2019. Cenozoic vertebrate biostratigraphy of South Carolina, U.S.A. and additions to the fauna. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 57(2):77-236 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 206999: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 10.12.2019

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras ? guymonense Prothero 2005 rhinoceros