Where: Dorchester County, South Carolina (33.1° N, 80.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 77.5° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; marl
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by Bowman
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
Primary reference: R. W. Gibbes. 1851. Memoir on Mosasaurus and the three allied new genera, Holcodus, Conosaurus, and Amphorosteus. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 2(5):1-13 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 18506: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002, edited by Mark Uhen, Matthew Carrano and Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Cyclotomodon vagrans n. gen. n. sp.2
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Actinopteri | |
Conosaurus bowmani n. gen. n. sp.
Conosaurus bowmani n. gen. n. sp. Gibbes 1851 | |
Diodon vetus8 Leidy 1855 | |
Labrodon carolinensis8 Leidy 1856 | |
Reptilia | |
Eupachemys obtusus n. gen. n. sp.7
Eupachemys obtusus n. gen. n. sp.7 Leidy 1877 turtle Prof. Holmes has submitted to my examination a specimen, probably pertaining to the same species as the latter, from the Ashley River, in the vicinity of Charles- ton. It consists of a marginal bone, represented in figures 4, 5, PI. xxxiv., half the natural size
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Trionyx sp.7 Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle I have repeatedly seen small fragments of the bony shell of species of Trionyx, from the Ashley deposits, but too small to determine from them any important specific character
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Aves | |
"? Palaeochenoides mioceanus" = Palaeochenoides miocaenus3
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Mammalia | |
Ceterhinops longifrons n. gen. n. sp.7
Ceterhinops longifrons n. gen. n. sp.7 Leidy 1877 toothed whale Sanders (2002) asserts that this specimen is from the Pliocene Goose Creek Limestone, but this seems unlikely.
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"Proroziphius macrops n. sp." = Choneziphius macrops6
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Dinoziphius carolinensis n. sp.7, Squalodon pelagius n. sp.5, Phoca debilis n. sp.4, Squalodon crassus n. sp.1
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"Phoca modesta n. sp." = Squalodon modesta5
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Chondrichthyes | |
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"Notidanus primigenius" = Notorhynchus primigenius8
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"Ginglymostoma serra" = Nebrius serra8
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"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon8, "Carcharodon angustidens" = Otodus (Carcharocles) angustidens8
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"Alopecias grandis" = Alopias grandis8
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Sphyrna americana n. sp.8
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"Rhinoptera dubia" = Rhinoptera dubius8
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