Port Royal Sound (Pleistocene to of the United States)
Also known as Laurel Bay
Where: Beaufort County, South Carolina (32.5° N, 80.8° W: paleocoordinates 32.5° N, 80.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Pleistocene to Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; unlithified mudstone
• mud
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: D. J. Cicimurri and J. L. Knight. 2009. Two shark-bitten whale skeletons from Coastal Plain Deposits of South Carolina. Southeastern Naturalist 8(1):71-82 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 91707: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 16.10.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia | |
Mysticeti indet. Cope 1891 whale | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Carcharhinus longimanus requiem shark
Carcharhinus obscurus Le Sueur 1818 requiem shark
Carcharhinus falciformis Bibron 1841 requiem shark
Carcharhinus plumbeus Nardo 1827 requiem shark | |
Galeocerdo cuvier Peron and LeSueur 1822 tiger shark |