Golf Course Creek (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Charleston County, South Carolina (32.9° N, 80.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 74.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• originally described as Cooper Marl, of Oligocene age

Environment/lithology: shoreface; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. C. Whitmore and A. E. Sanders. 1977. Review of the Oligocene Cetacea. Systematic Zoology 25:304-320 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 70957: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 12.04.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Squalodontidae
Squalodontidae indet. Brandt 1873 toothed whale
sp. A