Greer's Landing: Rupelian, South Carolina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Agorophiidae
Zeuglodon sp. Owen 1839
Tuomey 1847 1 specimen
    = Zeuglodon pygmaeus n. sp. Muller 1849
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
Geological group:Cooper Formation:Ashley
Stratigraphy comments: NP24, P20-P22; Ashley Formation is identified as Rupelian rather than its conventional assignment as Chattian by Weems et al. 2004
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]