Charleston, Eocene unknown (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Charleston County, South Carolina (32.8° N, 79.9° W: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 68.5° W)

When: Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: O. P. Hay. 1923. Characteristics of sundry fossil vertebrates. Pan-American Geologist 39:101-120 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 190388: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 07.12.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Pancheloniidae
Carolinochelys wilsoni n. gen. n. sp.
Carolinochelys wilsoni n. gen. n. sp. Hay 1923 turtle