Pacific Guano Company (Pliocene of the United States)

Where: Charleston County, South Carolina (32.5° N, 80.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 79.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Goose Creek Formation, Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• Age of these deposits is highly uncertain.

Environment/lithology: marine; phosphatic marl

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

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 123227: 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
 Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Belemnoziphius prorops n. sp., Choneziphius trachops n. sp., Choneziphius liops n. sp., Eboroziphius coelops n. gen. n. sp.
Belemnoziphius prorops n. sp. Leidy 1876 beaked whale
Choneziphius trachops n. sp. Leidy 1876 beaked whale
Choneziphius liops n. sp. Leidy 1876 beaked whale
Eboroziphius coelops n. gen. n. sp. Leidy 1876 beaked whale