Silver City Mine (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Polk County, Florida (27.9° N, 81.8° W: paleocoordinates 28.1° N, 79.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Bone Valley Member (Peace River Formation), Clarendonian (12.5 - 9.4 Ma)

• lower beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: X. Wang, R. H. Tedford, and B. E. Taylor. 1999. Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 243:1-392 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 18588: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993, edited by Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
"Catagonus brachydontus" = Protherohyus brachydontus4
"Catagonus brachydontus" = Protherohyus brachydontus4 Dalquest and Mooser 1980 peccary
"Swift Silver City Mine"
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Cormohipparion ingenuum3 Leidy 1885 hipparionine horse
Neohipparion eurystyle2 Cope 1893 hipparionine horse
 Carnivora - Canidae
Epicyon haydeni Leidy 1858 bone-crushing dog
 Sirenia - Dugongidae
Metaxytherium floridanum1 Hay 1922 dugong