Lambs, Marl Pit (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Charleston County, South Carolina (32.6° N, 80.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 74.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; marl

Size class: macrofossils

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 144263: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 02.05.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia -
"Gavialosuchus carolinensis" = Thecachampsa carolinensis
"Gavialosuchus carolinensis" = Thecachampsa carolinensis Erickson and Sawyer 1996 crocodilian
ChM PV 4280 (cranial fragment)