Merritt Island (Pleistocene to of the United States)
Where: Brevard County, Florida (28.1° N, 80.5° W: paleocoordinates 28.1° N, 80.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Irvingtonian to Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.0 Ma)
• said to be late Irvingtonian to Rancholabrean
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: M. K. Frazier. 1981. A revision of the fossil Erethizontidae of North America. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 27(1) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details
PaleoDB collection 20419: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• said to be "later Irvingtonian or Rancholabrean" by Frazier and Rancholabrean by Kurten and Anderson, but "probable early Irvingtonian" by Morgan and White 1995
Show authors, comments, and common names
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Erethizon kleini Frazier 1981 North American porcupine | |
"Leopardus amnicola" = Leopardus wiedii1
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"Canis dirus" = Aenocyon dirus2
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