Where: Beaufort County, South Carolina (32.5° N, 80.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.5° N, 79.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Goose Creek Formation, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• It is unclear exactly which beds the fossil comes from, but this is the most likely formation. It may be from Miocene deposits as well.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; phosphatic, sandy sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. Post, O. Lambert, and G. Bianucci. 2008. First record of Tusciziphius crispus (Cetacea, Ziphiidae) from the Neogene of the US east coast. Deinsea 12:1-10 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 79743: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 21.03.2008

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