Eagle Creek, Chandler Bridge Formation: Chattian, South Carolina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Xenorophidae
6 specimens
Mammalia - Cetacea - Squalodontidae
Sanders et al. 1982
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:South Carolina County:Dorchester
Coordinates: 33.0° North, 80.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.4° North, 68.8° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Oligocene
Stage: Chattian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 4
Key time interval: Chattian
Age range of interval: 27.3 - 23.04 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Cooper Formation:Chandler Bridge
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:phosphatic silty sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:estuary/bay
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,replaced with phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:112635
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-07-14 04:38:08 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2011-07-14 04:38:08
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
11875. F. C. Whitmore and A. E. Sanders. 1977. Review of the Oligocene Cetacea. Systematic Zoology 25:304-320 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

61618 B. R. Erickson. 1990. Paleoecology of crocodile and whale-bearing strata of Oligocene age in North America. Historical Biology [M. Uhen/B. Shipps]
36669 A. E. Sanders, R. E. Weems, and E. M. Lemon. 1982. Chandler Bridge Formation-A new Oligocene stratigraphic unit in the lower coastal plain of South Carolina. Geological Survey Bulletin 1529(H):105-124 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]