Charleston International Airport drainage ditch (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Charleston County, South Carolina (32.9° N, 80.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.8° N, 73.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ashley Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

• Ashley Formation; early Oligocene, late Rupelian, Arikareean 1

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. B. Albright, A. E. Sanders, R. E. Weems, D. J. Cicimurri, and J. L. Knight. 2019. Cenozoic vertebrate biostratigraphy of South Carolina, U.S.A. and additions to the fauna. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 57(2):77-236 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 200275: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 26.03.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Sirenia - Dugongidae
? Metaxytherium alibfontatum dugong
ChM PV9480