Crystal River Power Plant: Irvingtonian, Florida
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Castoroides sp.
Foster 1838
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see also Morgan and White 1995 | ||||||||||
Castoroides dilophidus
(Martin 1969)
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Hulbert et al. 2014 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Tapiridae
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Tapirus haysii
Leidy 1860
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recombined as Tapirus (Helicotapirus) haysii | ||||||||||
see also Hulbert 1995a | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus leidyi
Hay 1913
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nomen vanum belonging to Equus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Hemiauchenia macrocephala
(Cope 1893)
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Odocoileus virginianus
(Zimmermann 1780)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Smilodon gracilis
Cope 1880
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Procyonidae
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Procyon sp.
Storr 1780
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said to be new | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Lutra canadensis
(Schreber 1776)
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= Lontra canadensis
Schreber 1776
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Arctodus pristinus
Leidy 1854
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see also Emslie 1995 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canis edwardii
Gazin 1942
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reported as "C. rufus" of Nowak 1979 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Cingulata
- Pampatheriidae
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Holmesina floridanus
(Robertson 1976)
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see also Hulbert and Morgan 1993 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Megalonychidae
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Megalonyx wheatleyi
Cope 1871
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Mammalia
- Megatheriidae
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Eremotherium sp.
Spillmann 1948
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= Eremotherium eomigrans
De Iuliis and Cartelle 1999
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De Iuliis and Cartelle 1999 | |||||||||
said to be new; "E. rusconii" of Kurten and Anderson 1980 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Mylodontidae
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Paramylodon harlani
(Owen 1840)
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Cuvieronius tropicus
(Cope 1884)
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reported as "C. sp." by Kurten and Anderson 1980 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Florida | County: | Citrus |
Coordinates: | 28.8° North, 82.2° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 28.8° North, 82.0° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | *Local age/stage: | Early/Lower Irvingtonian |
Key time interval: | Irvingtonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 1.80000 - 0.30000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Bermont | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: said to be early Irvingtonian |
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Metadata
Database number: | 20299 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, M. Uhen | Enterer: | J. Alroy, M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:44 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
2615. | G. S. Morgan and R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1995. Overview of the geology and vertebrate biochronology of the Leisey Shell Pit Local Fauna, Hillsborough County, Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 37(1) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |
Secondary references:
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
1357 | G. De Iuliis and C. Cartelle. 1999. A new giant megatheriine ground sloth (Mammalia: Xenarthra: Megatheriidae) from the late Blancan to early Irvingtonian of Florida. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 127:495-515 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
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] |