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What locals are saying
The Mace Brown holds holotype specimens of three Oligocene whale and dolphin species — Coronodon, Cotylocara, and Inermorostrum — making it a genuinely irreplaceable research institution disguised as a free afternoon stop on the College of Charleston campus. Visitors can watch fossil preparators working behind glass, sift lowcountry sediment for shark teeth to keep, and stand in front of a Megalodon jaw that earns every superlative thrown at it. For a city that narrates itself through antebellum architecture, the Mace Brown quietly makes the case that the 34-million-year-old shoreline is the more interesting story.
Oligocene whale holotypes found nowhere else on displayMegalodon jaw as the undisputed centerpiecefossil dig with real shark teeth to take homeactive prep lab visible through glassstaff depth well above the typical small-museum standardfree admission, no reservations, no pretense
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