Where: Charleston County, South Carolina (32.8° N, 79.9° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 79.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Goose Creek Formation, Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• early Pliocene
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; limestone
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 77594: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 15.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
"Raja" sp. Linnaeus 1758 skate | |
Rhinobatos cf. lentiginosus guitarfish | |
Rhinoptera cf. bonasus cownose ray | |
Rhizoprionodon cf. teraenovae sharpnose shark
Carcharhinus sp. de Blainville 1816 requiem shark | |
Galeocerdo cuvier Peron and LeSueur 1822 tiger shark | |
Mammalia | |
Ontocetus emmonsi Leidy 1859 walrus | |
Mysticeti indet. Cope 1891 whale |