Where: Marion County, Florida (28.8° N, 82.3° W: paleocoordinates 29.0° N, 80.7° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Hemphillian (10.3 - 4.9 Ma)
• said to be early Hemphillian, Hh2
•sinkhole is "developed in the Inglis member of the Ocala Limestone (Late Eocene)" (Becker 1985)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: pond; fine-grained, green, silty claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the FLMNH
• Eocene, Hemphillian, and Rancholabrean fossils are all present but easily distinguished based on preservation and color
Primary reference: J. J. Becker. 1985. Fossil herons (Aves: Ardeidae) of the late Miocene and early Pliocene of Florida. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 5(1):24-31 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 18601: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Richard Hulbert, Jonathan Marcot and Patricia Holroyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Amphibia | |
Rana sp. Linnaeus 1758 frog | |
Bufo sp. Laurenti 1768 toad | |
Amphiuma sp. Garden 1821 amphiuma
Siren sp. Linnaeus 1766 siren
Notophthalmus sp. Rafinesque 1820 newt | |
Aves | |
Egretta subfluvia n. sp.
Egretta subfluvia n. sp. Becker 1985 egret | |
Buteo sp. de Lacepède 1799 hawk | |
Reptilia | |
Alligator mississippiensis Daudin 1801 American alligator | |
Natricinae indet. Bonaparte 1838 colubrid snake | |
Viperidae indet. Oppel 1811 viper | |
Pseudemys ? nelsoni Carr 1938 Florida red-bellied turtle
Terrapene sp. Merrem 1820 box turtle | |
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Mammalia | |
Thinobadistes wetzeli n. sp.11
Thinobadistes wetzeli n. sp.11 Webb 1989 edentate from "Site 4X" and referred specimens from "Site 4A"; "T. segnis"
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Pliometanastes protistus Hirschfeld and Webb 1968 edentate | |
Platybelodon sp.8 Borissiak 1928 gomphothere presumably "Torynobelodon sp."; identification is uncertain according to Lambert 1996
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Indarctos sp. Pilgrim 1913 bear | |
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Machairodus sp. Kaup 1833 cat | |
"Hippotherium ingenuum" = Cormohipparion ingenuum1, Neohipparion eurystyle, Pseudhipparion skinneri7, Hipparion cf. tehonense, Nannippus aztecus1, Nannippus morgani7, Protohippus cf. gidleyi6, Calippus maccartyi6
Neohipparion eurystyle Cope 1893 hipparionine horse
Hipparion cf. tehonense Merriam 1916 hipparionine horse
Protohippus cf. gidleyi6 Hulbert 1988 horse includes specimen inexplicably assigned to "Pliohippus" by MacFadden and Cerling 1996
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Teleoceras sp. Hatcher 1894 rhinoceros
Aphelops mutilus Matthew 1924 rhinoceros | |
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Aepycamelus cf. major Leidy 1886 camel
Procamelus cf. grandis Gregory 1939 camel | |
Floridameryx floridanus n. gen. n. sp.12
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Hexameryx simpsoni White 1941 pronghorn | |
? Pratilepus sp. Hibbard 1939 rabbit | |
Cricetidae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817 mouse | |
Sciuridae indet. Gray 1821 squirrel | |
Actinopteri | |
Pogonias cromis Cope 1869 black drum | |
Carangidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 | |
Centropomus sp. Lacépède 1802 |