Buda Mine (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Alachua County, Florida (29.8° N, 82.6° W: paleocoordinates 29.9° N, 77.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Crystal River Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• Czaplewski & Morgan (2015) review stratigraphic evidence and conclude "Pending a more detailed biochronology of Florida Arikareean faunas, we tentatively regard the Buda Local Fauna as early late Arikareean in age (Ar3; 25-23 Ma)."

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: sinkhole; claystone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Reposited in the FLMNH

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying

Primary reference: D. Frailey. 1979. The large mammals of the Buda Local Fauna (Arikareean, Alachua County, Florida). Bulletin of the Florida State Museum 24(2) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 17764: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.07.1994, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• list is definitely incomplete as there are additional "small mammals"
unclassified
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Mammalia
 Cimolesta - Apatemyidae
Sinclairella simplicidens n. sp.5 Czaplewski and Morgan 2015 eutherian
UF 97383 (holotype), right M2
 Carnivora - Nimravidae
Nimravidae indet. Cope 1880 false sabre-tooth
 Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Daphoenodon notionastes n. sp. Frailey 1979 bear-dog
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mustelidae indet. Fischer 1817 mustelid carnivore
 Carnivora - Canidae
Phlaocyon achoros3 Frailey 1979 bone-crushing dog
Cynarctoides lemur8 Cope 1879 bone-crushing dog
NOT "C. sp." in original list, which is P. achoros
Cormocyon cf. copei8 Wang and Tedford 1992 bone-crushing dog
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Anchitheriinae indet. Leidy 1869 anchitheriine horse
 Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Moropus cf. oregonensis4 Leidy 1873 chalicothere
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Nothokemas sp.6 White 1947 camel
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Phenacocoelinae indet. Schultz and Falkenbach 1950 oreodont
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Tayassuinae indet.3 Palmer 1897 peccary
 Artiodactyla - Hypertragulidae
Nanotragulus loomisi Lull 1922 ruminant
 Theriamorpha - Geolabididae
Centetodon magnus6 Clark 1936 placental
 Theriamorpha - Erinaceidae
Parvericius sp.2 Koerner 1940 hedgehog
 Rodentia -
Geomyoidea indet.3 Bonaparte 1845 rodent
 Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Harrymys cf. magnus2 Wood 1932 rodent
 Rodentia - Eomyidae
Eomyidae indet.7 Winge 1887 rodent
 Rodentia -
Texomys sp.1 Slaughter 1981 rodent