Also known as American Cyanamid Haynesworth Mine

Where: Polk County, Florida (27.9° N, 81.8° W: paleocoordinates 28.1° N, 80.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Bone Valley Member (Peace River Formation), Tortonian to Tortonian (11.6 - 3.6 Ma)

• Peace River Formation in Florida was likely deposited between 11-4.3Ma. The lower sequence is Tortonian, deposited between 11-8.5Ma, and the upper sequence is Zanclean and deposited between 5.2-4.3Ma (Missimer, 1999)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Berta and H. Galiano. 1984. A Miocene amphicyonid (Mammalia: Carnivora) from the Bone Valley Formation of Florida. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 4(1):122-125 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 18511: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993

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