Charleston, Tiger Leap: Chattian, South Carolina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Xenorophidae
Archaeodelphis patrius n. gen., n. sp. Allen 1921
Allen 1921 1 specimen
Allen noted that this specimen was found in the collections of the MCZ with a note indicating it was from the Jackson Formation of Alabama
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:South Carolina
Coordinates: 32.8° North, 79.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.9° North, 74.8° West
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Chattian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:Chattian
Age range of interval:28.10000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago
Age estimate:27.2 to 24.5 Ma (other)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tiger Leap
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Sediment preserved with the skull has yielded a dinoflagellate assemblage including Saturnodinium pansum and Pentadinium imaginatum [11; M. Uhen 2012, pers. comm.]. The overlap of these two species is defined by the first occurrence of P. imaginatum at the base of NW European dinoflagellate cyst zone D15c (ca. 27.2 Ma) [12] and the last occurrence of S. pansum at Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes around 24.5 Ma [13]. (Marx & Fordyce, 2015)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:68974
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-02-14 14:22:30 Last modified:2015-04-22 15:14:44
Access level:the public Released:2007-02-14 14:22:30
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

19387. M. D. Uhen, R. E. Fordyce, and L. G. Barnes. 2008. Odontoceti. In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.), Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America II:566-606 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

11889 G. M. Allen. 1921. A new fossil cetacean. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 65(1):1-14 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
55050 F. G. Marx and R. E. Fordyce. 2015. Baleen boom and bust: a synthesis of mysticete phylogeny, diversity and disparity. Royal Society Open Science 2:140434 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]