Limehouse Branch drainage ditch: Chattian, South Carolina
collected by Billy Palmer
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Xenorophidae
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Echovenator sandersi n. gen., n. sp.
Churchill et al. 2016
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1 specimen | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | South Carolina | County: | Berkeley |
| Coordinates: | 33.0° North, 80.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 33.1° North, 74.8° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
| Stage: | Chattian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
| Key time interval: | Chattian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 27.82000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Chandler Bridge | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Basal bed of the Chandler Bridge Formation, late Oligocene (ca. 24–27 Ma) in age [5]. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal |
| Geology comments: deposited in a nearshore marine or restricted bay environment | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collectors: | Billy Palmer |
| Taxonomic list comments:fossils in the Charleston Museum | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 180866 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-08-04 12:54:09 | Last modified: | 2020-01-20 09:04:15 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-08-04 12:54:09 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 60060. | M. Churchill, M. Martinez-Cáceres, C. Muizon, J. Mnieckowski, and J. H. Geisler. 2016. The Origin of High-Frequency Hearing in Whales. Current Biology 26:1-6 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 61618 | B. R. Erickson. 1990. Paleoecology of crocodile and whale-bearing strata of Oligocene age in North America. Historical Biology [M. Uhen/B. Shipps] |