Woodstock Station (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Berkeley County, South Carolina (33.0° N, 80.1° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 73.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

• listed in paper as Ashley-Cooper Marl of probable Oligocene ages; Ashley Formation is identified as Rupelian rather than its conventional assignment as Chattian by Weems et al. 2004

•late Rupelian according to Sanders & Geisler, 2015

Environment/lithology: marine; green, calcareous marl

• homogenous texture, and drab green color; and contains 74 per cent calcium carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: R. Kellogg. 1923. Description of an apparently new toothed cetacean from South Carolina. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 76(7):1-7 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45500: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 26.10.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Agorophiidae
Ankylorhiza sp.1 Boessenecker et al. 2020 toothed whale
It is not clear where near Charleston this specimen actually came from, but it is probably from the Ashley Formation.
 Cetacea - Xenorophidae
Xenorophus sloanii n. gen. n. sp.
Xenorophus sloanii n. gen. n. sp. Kellogg 1923 toothed whale
Reptilia
 Testudines - Pancheloniidae
"Carolinachelys wilsoni" = Carolinochelys2
"Carolinachelys wilsoni" = Carolinochelys2 turtle
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
"Volutilithes petrosa" = Athleta petrosa
"Volutilithes petrosa" = Athleta petrosa Conrad 1833 volute
 Sorbeoconcha - Cassidae
"Cassis (Morio) petersoni" = Galeodea petersoni
"Cassis (Morio) petersoni" = Galeodea petersoni Conrad 1854 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Pecten calvatus" = Eburneopecten calvatus
"Pecten calvatus" = Eburneopecten calvatus Morton 1833 scallop
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Ostrea trigonalis" = Gigantostrea trigonalis
"Ostrea trigonalis" = Gigantostrea trigonalis Conrad 1854 oyster