Leveston Bluff (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Dorchester County, South Carolina (32.9° N, 80.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 74.9° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

When: Chandler Bridge Formation (Cooper Group), Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Godfrey, M. D. Uhen, J. E. Osborne and L. E. Edwards. 2016. A new specimen of Agorophius pygmaeus (Agorophiidae, Odontoceti, Cetacea) from the early Oligocene Ashley Formation of South Carolina, USA. Journal of Paleontology 90(1):154-169 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 156031: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 07.05.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Agorophiidae
Agorophius pygmaeus Muller 1849 toothed whale
ChM PV 4256