Where: Dorchester County, South Carolina (33.1° N, 80.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 77.5° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; marl
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by Bowman
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
Primary reference: R. W. Gibbes. 1851. Memoir on Mosasaurus and the three allied new genera, Holcodus, Conosaurus, and Amphorosteus. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 2(5):1-13 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 18506: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002, edited by Mark Uhen, Matthew Carrano and Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Cyclotomodon vagrans n. gen. n. sp.2
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Aves | |
"? Palaeochenoides mioceanus" = Palaeochenoides miocaenus3
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Reptilia | |
Trionyx sp.7 Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle I have repeatedly seen small fragments of the bony shell of species of Trionyx, from the Ashley deposits, but too small to determine from them any important specific character
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Eupachemys obtusus n. gen. n. sp.7
Eupachemys obtusus n. gen. n. sp.7 Leidy 1877 turtle Prof. Holmes has submitted to my examination a specimen, probably pertaining to the same species as the latter, from the Ashley River, in the vicinity of Charles- ton. It consists of a marginal bone, represented in figures 4, 5, PI. xxxiv., half the natural size
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Mammalia | |
Ceterhinops longifrons n. gen. n. sp.7
Ceterhinops longifrons n. gen. n. sp.7 Leidy 1877 toothed whale Sanders (2002) asserts that this specimen is from the Pliocene Goose Creek Limestone, but this seems unlikely.
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Dinoziphius carolinensis n. sp.7, Phoca debilis n. sp.4, Squalodon crassus n. sp.1, Squalodon pelagius n. sp.5
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"Proroziphius macrops n. sp." = Choneziphius macrops6
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"Phoca modesta n. sp." = Squalodon modesta5
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Actinopteri | |
Conosaurus bowmani n. gen. n. sp.
Conosaurus bowmani n. gen. n. sp. Gibbes 1851 | |
Diodon vetus8 Leidy 1855 | |
Labrodon carolinensis8 Leidy 1856 | |
Chondrichthyes | |
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"Notidanus primigenius" = Notorhynchus primigenius8
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"Ginglymostoma serra" = Nebrius serra8
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Sphyrna americana n. sp.8
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"Carcharodon angustidens" = Otodus (Carcharocles) angustidens8, "Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon8
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"Alopecias grandis" = Alopias grandis8
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