McKewn Subdivision, Ashley (Oligocene of the United States)

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
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Carcharocles angustidens" = Otodus (Carcharocles) angustidens
"Carcharocles angustidens" = Otodus (Carcharocles) angustidens Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark