Where: Dorchester County, South Carolina (33.0° N, 80.2° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 73.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Ashley Formation (Cooper Group), Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1978
Primary reference: B. R. Erickson and G. T. Sawyer. 1996. The estuarine crocodile Gavialosuchus carolinensis n. sp. (Crocodylia: Eusuchia) from the late Oligocene of South Carolina, North America. Monograph of the Science Museum of Minnesota 3:1-47 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 144261: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 02.05.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Gavialosuchus carolinensis" = Thecachampsa carolinensis
"Gavialosuchus carolinensis" = Thecachampsa carolinensis Erickson and Sawyer 1996 crocodilian ChM PV 4282 (mandible)
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