State Ports Authority Terminal (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Charleston County, South Carolina (32.8° N, 79.9° W: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 75.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine

Primary reference: D. P. Domning. 1989. Fossil Sirenia of the West Atlantic and Caribbean Region. II. Dioplotherium manigaulti Cope, 1883. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 9(4):415-428 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 58452: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 07.02.2006

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Sirenia - Dugongidae
Dioplotherium manigaulti Cope 1883 dugong
Aves
 Odontopterygiformes - Pelagornithidae
Tympanonesiotes wetmorei n. gen. n. sp.
Tympanonesiotes wetmorei n. gen. n. sp. Hopson 1964 bird
said to be from the Cooper River, near Drum Island