Port Royal Sound: Pleistocene - Holocene, South Carolina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Mysticeti indet.
Cope 1891
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Carcharhinidae
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Carcharhinus longimanus
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Carcharhinus falciformis
(Bibron 1841)
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Carcharhinus obscurus
(Le Sueur 1818)
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Carcharhinus plumbeus
(Nardo 1827)
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Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Galeocerdidae
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Galeocerdo cuvier
Peron and LeSueur 1822
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | South Carolina | County: | Beaufort |
| Coordinates: | 32.5° North, 80.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 32.5° North, 80.6° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Pleistocene - Holocene |
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | unlithified mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: mud | |
| Environment: | estuary/bay |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Feeding/predation traces: | tooth marks |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Laurel Bay | ||
| Database number: | 91707 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-10-16 11:33:14 | Last modified: | 2009-10-16 13:33:59 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-10-16 11:33:14 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 30915. | 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] |