Oldsmar Pit 1 (Arcadia Formation) (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Pinellas County, Florida (27.8° N, 82.8° W: paleocoordinates 28.1° N, 80.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Arcadia Formation, Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: P. F. Karrow, G. S. Morgan, R. W. Portell, E. Simons, and K. Auffenberg. 1996. Middle Pleistocene (early Rancholabrean) vertebrates and associated marine and non-marine invertebrates from Oldsmar, Pinnellas County, Florida. In K. M. Stewart, K. L. Seymour (eds.), Palaeoecology and palaeoenvironments of late Cenozoic mammals: Tributes to the career of C.S. (Rufus) Churcher 97-133 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

PaleoDB collection 18570: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 19.05.2000, edited by Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

• fossils found in spoil piles and tentatively assigned to formation
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Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Archaeohippus sp., cf. Hypohippus sp.
Archaeohippus sp. Gidley 1906 anchitheriine horse
cf. Hypohippus sp. Leidy 1858 anchitheriine horse
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Castoroides dilophidus
Castoroides dilophidus Martin 1969 giant beaver