Wando Mining Company (Pliocene of the United States)
Where: Charleston County, South Carolina (32.8° N, 80.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 79.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Goose Creek Formation, Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• Specific age of these deposits is very uncertain.
Environment/lithology: marine; phosphatic marl
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. Leidy. 1876. Remarks on fossils from the Ashley Phosphate Beds. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1876:80-81 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 123226: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 16.01.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• although only this specimen is specifically assigned to the Miocene marl, other parts of the fauna including Gomphotherium and Teleoceras may belong to it
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| Mammalia | |
"Proroziphius chonops n. sp." = Choneziphius chonops
"Proroziphius chonops n. sp." = Choneziphius chonops Leidy 1876 beaked whale | |