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
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 | |
Eomysticetus carolinensis n. sp.
Eomysticetus carolinensis n. sp. Sanders and Barnes 2002 whale | |
Actinopteri | |
Xiphiorhynchus rotundus Monsch et al. 2005 sword fish The precise locality of Xiphiorhynchus rotundus is unclear.
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