Where: Gilchrist County, Florida (29.7° N, 82.6° W: paleocoordinates 29.9° N, 80.9° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Hemphillian (10.3 - 4.9 Ma)
• Hulbert, Jr. 1987 (thesis): "Stratigraphic occurence and age of the type locality . uncertain, but here interpreted to probably be early Hemphillian. Previously thought to be significantly older, i.e. equivalent to the Quincy and Midway local faunas, or late Hemingfordian."
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the FLMNH
Primary reference: G. G. Simpson. 1930. Tertiary Land Mammals of Florida. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 59(3):1-64 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 18525: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
county is given as Alachua by Simpson, Gilchrist by Hulbert
Mammalia | |
"Merychippus westoni n. sp." = Nannippus westoni
"Merychippus westoni n. sp." = Nannippus westoni Simpson 1930 hipparionine horse |