Dorchester Creek (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Dorchester County, South Carolina (33.0° N, 80.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 74.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

• Chandler Bridge Formation, bed 2, lower Chattian correlative, late Oligocene, NP24 (by inference)

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; poorly lithified sandstone

• backbay to lagoonal- turbulant but with seeds and marine animal fossils

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ)

Primary reference: A. E. Sanders and L. G. Barnes. 2002. Paleontology of the Late Oligocene Ashley and Chandler Bridge Formations of South Carolina, 3: Eomysticetidae, a new family of primitive mysticetes (Mammalia: Cetacea). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 93:313-356 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45781: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 01.12.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Eomysticetidae
Eomysticetus carolinensis n. sp. Sanders and Barnes 2002 whale
Actinopteri
 Istiophoriformes - Xiphiidae
Xiphiorhynchus rotundus Monsch et al. 2005 sword fish
The precise locality of Xiphiorhynchus rotundus is unclear.