Walrus Ditch (Pliocene of the United States)

Where: Dorchester County, South Carolina (33.0° N, 80.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 79.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Goose Creek Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• Goose Creek Formation?

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal

Primary reference: N. Kohno and C. E. Ray. 2008. Pliocene walruses from the Yorktown Formation of Virginia and North Carolina, and a systematic revision of the North Atlantic Pliocene walruses. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication 14:39-80 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 77593: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 15.01.2008

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Rhynchotherium falconeri Osborn 1923 gomphothere
 Carnivora - Odobenidae
Ontocetus emmonsi Leidy 1859 walrus