Summerville (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Dorchester County, South Carolina (33.0° N, 80.3° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 73.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

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 229945: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.04.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Xenorophidae
Xenorophus sloani toothed whale
 Cetacea - Coronodonidae
Coronodon havensteini Geisler et al. 2017 whale
ChM PV 4745