North Charleston, Ashley Fm. (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Berkeley County, South Carolina (32.9° N, 80.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.8° N, 73.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Givhan's Ferry Member (Ashley Formation), Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; sandy limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. W. Boessenecker, B. L. Beatty, and J. H. Geisler. 2023. New specimens and species of the Oligocene toothed baleen whale Coronodon from South Carolina and the origin of Neoceti. PeerJ 11:e14795 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 229944: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.04.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Coronodonidae
Coronodon havensteini Geisler et al. 2017 whale
CCNHM 164, CCNHM 8772