Crystal River Power Plant: Irvingtonian, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Castoroides sp. Foster 1838
see also Morgan and White 1995
Castoroides dilophidus (Martin 1969)
Hulbert et al. 2014
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tapirus haysii Leidy 1860
recombined as Tapirus (Helicotapirus) haysii
see also Hulbert 1995a
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus leidyi Hay 1913
nomen vanum belonging to Equus
Mammalia - Camelidae
Hemiauchenia macrocephala (Cope 1893)
Mammalia - Cervidae
Odocoileus virginianus (Zimmermann 1780)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Smilodon gracilis Cope 1880
Mammalia - Carnivora - Procyonidae
Procyon sp. Storr 1780
said to be new
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Lutra canadensis (Schreber 1776)
    = Lontra canadensis Schreber 1776
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Arctodus pristinus Leidy 1854
see also Emslie 1995
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis edwardii Gazin 1942
reported as "C. rufus" of Nowak 1979
Mammalia - Cingulata - Pampatheriidae
Holmesina floridanus (Robertson 1976)
see also Hulbert and Morgan 1993
Mammalia - Megalonychidae
Megalonyx wheatleyi Cope 1871
Mammalia - Megatheriidae
Eremotherium sp. Spillmann 1948
    = Eremotherium eomigrans De Iuliis and Cartelle 1999
De Iuliis and Cartelle 1999
said to be new; "E. rusconii" of Kurten and Anderson 1980
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Paramylodon harlani (Owen 1840)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Cuvieronius tropicus (Cope 1884)
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]