Where: Hillsborough County, Florida (27.7° N, 82.5° W: paleocoordinates 27.7° N, 82.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Bermont Formation, Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)
• said to be early Irvingtonian
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; unlithified sandstone and unlithified siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying
Primary reference: R. C. Hulbert, Jr. and G. S. Morgan. 1989. Stratigraphy, paleoecology, and vertebrate fauna of the Leisey Shell Pit Local Fauna, early Pleistocene (Irvingtonian) of southwestern Florida. Papers in Florida Paleontology 2:1-19 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 20401: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Tapirus haysii" = Tapirus (Helicotapirus) haysii
"Tapirus haysii" = Tapirus (Helicotapirus) haysii Leidy 1860 tapir | |
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Odocoileus virginianus Zimmermann 1780 white-tailed deer | |
Palaeolama sp. Gervais 1869 camel | |
Arctodus pristinus Leidy 1854 bear | |
Canis armbrusteri Gidley 1913 canine | |
Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828 mammoth |