Also known as UF CO48
Where: Columbia County, Florida (30.3° N, 82.7° W: paleocoordinates 30.5° N, 77.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Porters Landing Member (Parachucla Formation), Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)
• from an "unnamed dolostone, clay, and sand formation of the Hawthorne Group"; originally Arikareean to Hemingfordian; age and formation after Velez-Juarbe & Domning, 2014
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, argillaceous, sandy dolomite
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: D. P. Domning. 1989. Fossil sirenians from the Suwannee River, Florida and Georgia. Miocene paleontology and stratigraphy of the Suwannee River Basin of North Florida and south Georgia. Southeastern Geological Society Field Trip Guidebook 30:54-60 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 13076: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.01.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Dioplotherium manigaulti Cope 1883 dugong |