FL Lime Company, Pit no. 5 (Pleistocene of the United States)
Where: Marion County, Florida (29.1° N, 82.2° W: paleocoordinates 29.2° N, 82.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Ocala Formation, Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: O. P. Hay. 1916. Descriptions of some Floridian fossil vertebrates, belonging mostly to the Pleistocene. Annual Report of the Florida State Geological Survey 8:39-76 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 195409: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 07.08.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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Testudo distans n. sp.
Testudo distans n. sp. Hay 1916 turtle USNM 8819 (holotype), an entoplastron (Hay 1916a, pl. 3.9; Auffenberg 1963, fig. 19). Originally catalogued as FGS 4289
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