Roaring Creek (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Hamilton County, Florida (30.4° N, 83.0° W: paleocoordinates 30.7° N, 79.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: lower Member (Statenville Formation), Barstovian (16.3 - 12.5 Ma)

• said to be late Barstovian

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: G. S. Morgan. 1993. Mammalian biochronology and marine-nonmarine correlations in the Neogene of Florida. Neogene of Florida and adjacent regions; proceedings of the Third Bald Head Island conference on Coastal plains geology. Special Publication, Florida Geological Survey 37:55-66 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 18585: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995

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Taxonomic list

• apparently separated from Occidental Mine on biochronological grounds; see discussion of C. proplacidus in Morgan 1989
list probably incomplete
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Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Archaeohippus sp., Equinae indet., Calippus proplacidus
Archaeohippus sp. Gidley 1906 anchitheriine horse
Equinae indet. Steinmann and Döderlein 1890 horse
Calippus proplacidus Osborn 1918 horse