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