Also known as La Belle Highway Pit
Where: Hendry County, Florida (26.8° N, 81.4° W: paleocoordinates 26.8° N, 81.2° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)
• said to be Irvingtonian
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: G. De Iuliis and C. Cartelle. 1999. A new giant megatheriine ground sloth (Mammalia: Xenarthra: Megatheriidae) from the late Blancan to early Irvingtonian of Florida. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 127:495-515 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 20394: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Castoroides dilophidus Martin 1969 giant beaver | |
Eremotherium sp. Spillmann 1948 edentate |