Ashley River (Goose Creek) (Pliocene of the United States)
Where: Dorchester County, South Carolina (33.1° N, 80.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.2° N, 79.5° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Goose Creek Formation, Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; phosphatic, sandy sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. E. Sanders. 2002. Additions to the Pleistocene Mammal Faunas of South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. American Philosophical Society 1-152 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 79744: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 21.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• although only this specimen is specifically assigned to the Miocene marl, other parts of the fauna including Gomphotherium and Teleoceras may belong to it
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