Apollo Beach: Irvingtonian, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Caviidae
Neochoerus sp. Hay 1926
Morgan and White 1995
Mammalia - Rodentia - Erethizontidae
Erethizon dorsatum (Linnaeus 1758)
Morgan and White 1995
(1 measurement)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Castoroides sp. Foster 1838
Morgan and White 1995
    = Castoroides dilophidus Martin 1969
Hulbert et al. 2014
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tapirus copei Simpson 1945
Hulbert 1995
    = Tapirus haysii Leidy 1860
Alroy 2002
recombined as Tapirus (Helicotapirus) haysii
replaces ID of Ray 1964
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus (Hemionus) sp. (Stehlin and Graziosi 1935)
Hulbert 1995
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Arctodus pristinus Leidy 1854
Emslie 1995
Mammalia - Cingulata - Pachyarmatheriidae
Pachyarmatherium leiseyi Downing and White 1995
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Hillsborough
Coordinates: 27.9° North, 82.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.9° North, 81.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Local age/stage:Rancholabrean
Key time interval:Irvingtonian
Age range of interval:1.80000 - 0.30000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: said to be Rancholabrean by some authors but mixed Irvingtonian and Rancholabrean by Morgan and White 1995; only nominally Irvingtonian records are listed below, and no further Irvingtonian taxa are listed by Morgan and Hulbert 1995
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:20145
Authorizer:J. Alroy, M. Uhen Enterer:J. Alroy, M. Uhen
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1995-10-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2005-08-24 18:13:29
Access level:the public Released:1995-10-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

1391. K. F. Downing and R. S. White. 1995. The cingulates (Xenarthra) of the Leisey Shell Pit local fauna (Irvingtonian), Hillsborough County, Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 37(12):375-396 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
1457 S. D. Emslie. 1995. The fossil record of Arctodus pristinus (Ursidae: Tremarctinae) in Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 37(15):501-514 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/R. Hulbert]
74663 R. C. Hulbert, A. Kerner, and G. S. Morgan. 2014. Taxonomy of the Pleistocene giant beaver Castoroides (Rodentia: Castoridae) from the southeastern United States. 53(2):26-43 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
1954 R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1995. The giant tapir, Tapirus haysii, from Leisey Shell Pit 1A and other Florida Irvingtonian Localities. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 37(16):515-551 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
1955 R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1995. Equus from Leisey Shell Pit 1A and other Irvingtonian localities from Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 37(17):553-602 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
2624 G. S. Morgan and J. A. White. 1995. Small mammals (Insectivora, Lagomorpha, and Rodentia) from the early Pleistocene (early Irvingtonian) Leisey Shell Pit Local Fauna, Hillsborough County, Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 37(13) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]