Crowfield Lake: Chattian, South Carolina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
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Gavialosuchus carolinensis
Erickson and Sawyer 1996
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Erickson and Sawyer 1996 | |||||||||
recombined as Thecachampsa carolinensis | ||||||||||
SCSM 90.93 (skull and skeleton) | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Cheloniidae
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Ashleychelys palmeri
Weems and Sanders 2014
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Weems and Sanders 2014 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Podocnemididae
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Bairdemys healeyorum n. sp.
Weems and Knight 2013
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Weems and Knight 2013 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Mammalia
- Sirenia
- Dugongidae
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Priscosiren atlantica
Velez-Juarbe and Domning 2014
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Velez-Juarbe and Domning 2014 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Crenatosiren olseni
(Reinhart 1976)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Metaxytherium albifontanum
Velez-Juarbe and Domning 2014
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Velez-Juarbe and Domning 2014 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | South Carolina | County: | Berkeley |
Coordinates: | 33.0° North, 80.1° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 33.1° North, 74.8° West | ||||
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: | 27.82000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Chandler Bridge | Member: | 1 |
Local order: | bottom to top |
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | Crowfield Golf and Country Club; Crowfield Plantation | ||
Database number: | 60443 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Uhen, P. Mannion |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2006-05-15 07:15:54 | Last modified: | 2019-12-10 14:08:22 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-05-15 07:15:54 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
17344. | D. P. Domning. 1997. Fossil Sirenia of the West Atlantic and Caribbean Region. VI. Crenatosiren olseni (Reinhart, 1976). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17(2):397-412 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
46645 | B. R. Erickson and G. T. Sawyer. 1996. The estuarine crocodile Gavialosuchus carolinensis n. sp. (Crocodylia: Eusuchia) from the late Oligocene of South Carolina, North America. Monograph of the Science Museum of Minnesota 3:1-47 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
50317 | J. Velez-Juarbe and D. P. Domning. 2014. Fossil Sirenia of the West Atlantic and Caribbean region. IX. Metaxytherium albifontanum, sp. nov. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(2):444-464 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
51981 | J. Velez-Juarbe and D. P. Domning. 2014. Fossil Sirenia of the West Atlantic and Caribbean region: X. Priscosiren atlantica, gen. et sp. nov. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(4):951-964 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
44199 | R. E. Weems and J. L. Knight. 2013. A New Species of Bairdemys (Pelomedusoides: Podocnemididae) from the Oligocene (Early Chattian) Chandler Bridge Formation of South Carolina, USA, and Its Paleobiogeographic Implications for the Genus. In D. B. Brinkman et al. (ed.), Morphology and Evolution of Turtles 289-303 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
50198 | R. E. Weems and A. E. Sanders. 2014. Oligocene Pancheloniid Sea Turtles from the Vicinity of Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(1):80-99 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Holroyd] |