White Springs 1A, marine (Oligocene of the United States)

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

• dolostone, clay, and sand

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
 Sirenia - Dugongidae
Dioplotherium manigaulti Cope 1883 dugong
Metaxytherium aff. crataegense1 Simpson 1932 dugong
UF 11579
Metaxytherium albifontanum n. sp.2 Velez-Juarbe and Domning 2014 dugong