Achan Mine (Pleistocene of the United States)

Also known as Bone Valley fauna, Wolf Hill

Where: Polk County, Florida (27.9° N, 81.8° W: paleocoordinates 27.9° N, 81.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. B. Wright. 1989. Phylogenetic relationships of Catagonus wagneri: sister taxa from the Tertiary of North America. Advances in Neotropical Mammalogy 281-308 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 18500: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002, edited by Richard Hulbert and Jonathan Marcot

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Taxonomic list

• town of Achan is in Polk County
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Canidae
Canis edwardii2 Gazin 1942 canine
"Wolf Hill locality, Bone Valley (late Irvingtonian), Polk County, Florida"
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
"Catagonus brachydontus" = Desmathyus brachydontus
"Catagonus brachydontus" = Desmathyus brachydontus Dalquest and Mooser 1980 peccary
 Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tapirus polkensis1 Olsen 1960 tapir