Savannah, near (Pliocene to of the United States)

Where: Chatham County, Georgia (32.1° N, 81.1° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 80.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Pliocene to Pliocene (5.3 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: N. Kohno and C. E. Ray. 2008. Pliocene walruses from the Yorktown Formation of Virginia and North Carolina, and a systematic revision of the North Atlantic Pliocene walruses. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication 14:39-80 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51589: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 08.06.2005

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammutidae indet. Hay 1922 mastodon
 Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Anoplonassa forcipata n. gen. n. sp.
Anoplonassa forcipata n. gen. n. sp. Cope 1869 beaked whale
 Carnivora - Odobenidae
Ontocetus emmonsi Leidy 1859 walrus