Also known as TRO Quarry

Where: Polk County, Florida (27.9° N, 81.8° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 28.5° N, 80.3° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bone Valley Member (Peace River Formation), Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• Morgan (1994) lists the age as latest Hemphillian (Zanclean, early Pliocene); upper beds

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; pebbly, phosphatic, argillaceous, sandy sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. S. Morgan. 1994. Miocene and Pliocene marine mammal faunas from the Bone Valley Formation of central Florida. Contributions in Marine Mammal Paleontology Honoring Frank C. Whitmore Jr., Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History 29:239-268 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 154720: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 05.03.2014

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