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The Mace Brown Museum of Natural History is a public natural history museum located on the campus of The College of Charleston, a public liberal arts college in Charleston, South Carolina. The museum has more than 30,000 vertebrate and invertebrate fossils. The collection's focus is on the paleontology of the South Carolina Lowcountry. The collection and exhibits showcase extensive fossils of late Cretaceous through Pliocene and Pleistocene marine vertebrates (sharks, rays, chimaeras, fish, marine reptiles, marine mammals) from the southeastern USA, Paleozoic and Mesozoic invertebrates and vertebrates, Mesozoic and Cenozoic fossil plants, Eocene and Oligocene land mammals from the great plains, ice age mammals, and dinosaurs. It is also a world-class collection of Oligocene cetacean fossils. The museum provides insight into the early evolution of whales and dolphins, right at the time that mysticete and odontocete whales split and echolocation evolved. The museum has the holotype specimens of Coronodon, Cotylocara, and Inermorostrum, as well as the reference specimen of Ankylorhiza tiedemani (en)

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Mace Brown Museum of Natural History (en)

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Scott Persons (en)

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Cretaceous-Cenozoic marine vertebrate assemblages including key fossils of early baleen whales, dolphins, and sea cows. (en)

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Mace Brown Museum of Natural History (en)

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The College of Charleston (en)

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The Mace Brown Museum of Natural History is a public natural history museum located on the campus of The College of Charleston, a public liberal arts college in Charleston, South Carolina. The museum has more than 30,000 vertebrate and invertebrate fossils. The collection's focus is on the paleontology of the South Carolina Lowcountry. (en)

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