Where: Dorchester County, South Carolina (33.0° N, 80.1° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 73.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• 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
Preservation: replaced with phosphate
Primary reference: A. E. Miller, M. L. Gibson, and R. W. Boessenecker. 2021. A megatoothed shark (Carcharocles angustidens) nursery in the Oligocene Charleston Embayment, South Carolina, USA. Palaeontologia Electronica 24(12):a19 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 223493: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 12.11.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
"Carcharocles angustidens" = Otodus (Carcharocles) angustidens
"Carcharocles angustidens" = Otodus (Carcharocles) angustidens Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark |