Where: Hillsborough County, Florida (27.7° N, 82.5° W: paleocoordinates 27.9° N, 80.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Bone Valley Formation, late Early Hemphillian (10.3 - 4.9 Ma)
• "late early Hemphillian"
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying
Primary reference: R. C. Hulbert, Jr. and G. S. Morgan. 1989. Stratigraphy, paleoecology, and vertebrate fauna of the Leisey Shell Pit Local Fauna, early Pleistocene (Irvingtonian) of southwestern Florida. Papers in Florida Paleontology 2:1-19 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 18552: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Neohipparion eurystyle Cope 1893 hipparionine horse
"Hippotherium ingenuum" = Cormohipparion ingenuum Leidy 1885 hipparionine horse
Nannippus aztecus Mooser 1968 hipparionine horse | |
cf. Aphelops sp. Owen 1845 rhinoceros |