Greer's Landing: Rupelian, South Carolina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Agorophiidae
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Zeuglodon sp.
Owen 1839
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Tuomey 1847 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
= Zeuglodon pygmaeus n. sp.
Muller 1849
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Muller 1849 | |||||||||
recombined as Agorophius pygmaeus | ||||||||||
MCZ 8761 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | South Carolina | County: | Dorchester |
Coordinates: | 32.9° North, 80.1° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 32.8° North, 73.6° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
Stage: | Rupelian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
Key time interval: | Rupelian | ||
Age range of interval: | 33.90000 - 28.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | poorly lithified sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | MCZ |
Metadata
Database number: | 45761 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2004-11-30 13:43:41 | Last modified: | 2015-02-20 13:59:47 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-11-30 13:43:41 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
47600. | M. Tuomey. 1848. Report on the Geology of South Carolina 1-293 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
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] | |
15395 | J. Muller. 1849. Uber die fossilen Reste der Zeuglodonten von Nordamerica 1-38 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
15434 | M. Tuomey. 1847. Notice of the discovery of a cranium of the zeuglodon (Basilosaurus). Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phildelphia 1:16-17 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
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] | |
11875 | F. C. Whitmore and A. E. Sanders. 1977. Review of the Oligocene Cetacea. Systematic Zoology 25:304-320 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |