White Springs 1A: Arikareean, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Parahippus sp. (Leidy 1858)
    = Anchippus texanus Leidy 1868
Hayes 2000
recombined as Desmatippus texanus
Mammalia - Camelidae
? Nothokemas sp. White 1947
Hayes 2000
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Merycoidodontidae indet. Cook 1912
Hayes 2000
Mammalia - Soricidae
Soricidae indet. Fischer 1814
"small shrew"
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Sciuridae indet. Gray 1821
"squirrel"
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Castoridae indet. Gray 1821
    = Neatocastor sp. Korth 1996
Hayes 2000
Mammalia - Rodentia
Proheteromys sp. Wood 1932
    = Geomyoidea indet. Bonaparte 1845
Alroy 2002
Geomyoidea indet. Bonaparte 1845
"geomyoid"
Mammalia - Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Proheteromys magnus Wood 1932
    = Harrymys cf. magnus Wood 1932
Alroy 2002
Proheteromys cf. floridanus Wood 1932
Mammalia - Rodentia - Eomyidae
Eomyidae indet. Winge 1887
"eomyid"
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
? Leidymys sp. Wood 1936
Hayes 2000
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Palaeolagus sp. Leidy 1856
    = Archaeolagus sp. Dice 1917
Hayes 2000
Mammalia
Herpetotherium sp. Cope 1873
Hayes 2000
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Columbia
Coordinates: 30.0° North, 82.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.2° North, 77.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Miocene
Key time interval:Arikareean
Age range of interval:30.80000 - 20.43000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Parachucla Member:Porters Landing
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:brown,gray argillaceous sandstone
Lithology description: light gray to buff to brown, slightly clayey, fine quartz sand with a minor percentage of fine phosphatic grains
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,selective quarrying,sieve
Taxonomic list comments:said to be "earliest Miocene (Arikareean)"
informal names in text matched to proper names in table for "White Springs"
"Canidae indet." is listed in table but can't be matched to a particular locality based on text
Metadata
Also known as:C048
Database number:17859
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Collections that are a subset of this one:13076
Created:1995-03-26 00:00:00 Last modified:2003-12-26 18:27:18
Access level:the public Released:1995-03-26 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2610. G. S. Morgan. 1989. Miocene vertebrate faunas from the Suwannee River basin of north Florida and south Georgia. Southeastern Geological Society Guidebook 30:26-53 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
4229 F. G. Hayes. 2000. The Brooksville 2 local fauna (Arikareean, latest Oligocene) Hernando County, Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 43(1):1-47 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
9613 B. J. MacFadden and G. S. Morgan. 2003. New oreodont (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from the late Oligocene (early Arikareean) of Florida. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 279:368-396 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
34095 D. K. Sarko, D. P. Domning, L. Marino and R. L. Reep. 2010. Estimating body size of fossil sirenians. Marine Mammals Science 26(4):937-959 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]