Santa Fe River Locality 1 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Columbia County, Florida (29.8° N, 82.7° W: paleocoordinates 30.0° N, 75.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Crystal River Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• late Eocene, probably Crystal River Formation

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. J. G. Savage, D. P. Domning, and J. G. M. Thewissen. 1994. Fossil Sirenia of the West Atlantic and Caribbean region. V. The most primitive known sirenian, Prorastomus sirenoides Owen, 1855. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14(3):427-449 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 84267: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.10.2008

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Sirenia - Prorastomidae
Prorastomidae indet. Cope 1889 sirenian