Where: South Carolina (32.8° N, 79.9° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 74.8° W)
When: Tiger Leap Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)
• Sediment preserved with the skull has yielded a dinoflagellate assemblage including Saturnodinium pansum and Pentadinium imaginatum [11; M. Uhen 2012, pers. comm.]. The overlap of these two species is defined by the first occurrence of P. imaginatum at the base of NW European dinoflagellate cyst zone D15c (ca. 27.2 Ma) [12] and the last occurrence of S. pansum at Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes around 24.5 Ma [13]. (Marx & Fordyce, 2015)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. D. Uhen, R. E. Fordyce, and L. G. Barnes. 2008. Odontoceti. In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.), Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America II:566-606 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 68974: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 14.02.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Archaeodelphis patrius n. gen. n. sp.
Archaeodelphis patrius n. gen. n. sp. Allen 1921 toothed whale Allen noted that this specimen was found in the collections of the MCZ with a note indicating it was from the Jackson Formation of Alabama
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