Ashley River, Pleistocene (Pleistocene of the United States)
Where: Charleston County, South Carolina (32.8° N, 80.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.8° N, 79.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• "Ashley Beds"
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. Leidy. 1860. Description of Vertebrate Fossils. Post-Pleiocene Fossils of South-Carolina 99-122 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/S. Bruning]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 79950: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 28.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• Manatus antiquus (=Metaxytherium floridanum) is reported from here but is probably either a mistake or reworked.
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"Ostrea virginiana" = Crassostrea virginica1
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Lucina kiawahensis n. sp.1
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"Physeter antiquus n. sp." = Physeter vetus2
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Hoplocetus obesus n. sp.3
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