Woodstock Station: Rupelian, South Carolina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Phocodon holmesii Agassiz 1850
Anonymous 1856 1 specimen
This specimen is said to come from "Goose Creek", but it is not clear exactly where.
    = Odontoceti indet.
Fordyce 1981
Implied. Fordyce said its identity was unknown, as the specimen is missing.
Mammalia - Cetacea - Agorophiidae
Saurocetus gibbesii n. gen., n. sp. Agassiz 1848
Allen 1924 1 specimen
It is not clear where near Charleston this specimen actually came from, but it is probably from the Ashley Formation.
    = Ankylorhiza sp. Boessenecker et al. 2020
Boessenecker et al. 2020
Mammalia - Cetacea - Xenorophidae
Xenorophus sloanii n. gen., n. sp. Kellogg 1923
1 specimen
Reptilia - Testudines
Carolinachelys wilsoni
Sanders and Geisler 2015
original and current combination Carolinochelys
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Volutilithes petrosa (Conrad 1833)
recombined as Athleta petrosa
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Cassis (Morio) petersoni (Conrad 1854)
recombined as Galeodea petersoni
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Ostrea trigonalis Conrad 1854
recombined as Gigantostrea trigonalis
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten calvatus Morton 1833
recombined as Eburneopecten calvatus
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:South Carolina County:Berkeley
Coordinates: 33.0° North, 80.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.9° North, 73.5° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Rupelian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:Rupelian Foram zone: NP24
Age range of interval:33.90000 - 27.82000 m.y. ago
Age estimate:29.2 to 29.1 Ma (Sr isotope)
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Cooper Formation:Ashley
Stratigraphy comments: listed in paper as Ashley-Cooper Marl of probable Oligocene ages; Ashley Formation is identified as Rupelian rather than its conventional assignment as Chattian by Weems et al. 2004

late Rupelian according to Sanders & Geisler, 2015
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:green calcareous marl
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: homogenous texture, and drab green color; and contains 74 per cent calcium carbonate
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Disassociated major elements:all
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Metadata
Database number:45500
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:marine invertebrate,vertebrate
Created:2004-10-26 08:28:56 Last modified:2015-02-02 17:59:46
Access level:the public Released:2004-10-26 08:28:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
11915. R. Kellogg. 1923. Description of an apparently new toothed cetacean from South Carolina. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 76(7):1-7 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

15077 G. M. Allen. 1924. The type-specimen of Saurocetus gibbesii Agassiz. Journal of Mammalogy 5(2):120-121 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
47606 Anonymous. 1856. [No title; Report of meeting, 6 June 1855]. Proceedings of the Elliot Society of Natural History, Charleston, South Carolina 1:22-23 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
72961 R. W. Boessenecker, M. Churchill, E. A. Buchholtz, B. L. Beatty, and J. H. Geisler. 2020. Convergent Evolution of Swimming Adaptations in Modern Whales Revealed by a Large Macrophagous Dolphin from the Oligocene of South Carolina. Current Biology 30:1-7 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
12034 R. E. Fordyce. 1981. Systematics of the odontocete whale Agorophius pygmaeus and the Family Agorophiidae (Mammalia: Cetacea). Journal of Paleontology 55(5):1028-1045 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
54174 A. E. Sanders and J. H. Geisler. 2015. A new basal odontocete from the upper Rupelian of South Carolina, U.S.A., with contributions to the systematics of Xenorophus and Mirocetus (Mammalia, Cetacea). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e890107 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Wagner]
18945 R. E. Weems, J. M. Self-Trail, and L. E. Edwards. 2004. Supergroup stratigraphy of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains (Middle? Jurassic through Holocene, Eastern North America). Southeastern Geology 42(4):191-216 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]