Limehouse Branch drainage ditch, Ashley Fm. (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Berkeley County, South Carolina (33.0° N, 80.1° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 73.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Billy Palmer

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 206951: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 09.12.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• fossils in the Charleston Museum
Mammalia
 Cetacea - Xenorophidae
Albertocetus sp. Uhen 2008 toothed whale