White Springs 1A, marine: Chattian, Florida
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Sirenia
- Dugongidae
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Dioplotherium manigaulti
Cope 1883
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Metaxytherium aff. crataegense
(Simpson 1932)
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Sarko et al. 2010 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| UF 11579 | ||||||||||
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Metaxytherium albifontanum n. sp.
Velez-Juarbe and Domning 2014
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Velez-Juarbe and Domning 2014 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Florida | County: | Columbia |
| Coordinates: | 30.3° North, 82.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 30.5° North, 77.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
| Stage: | Chattian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Early/Lower Miocene |
| *International age/stage: | Burdigalian | *Local age/stage: | Late/Upper Arikareean - Late/Upper Hemingfordian |
| Key time interval: | Chattian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 27.82 - 23.03 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Hawthorne | Formation: | Parachucla | Member: | Porters Landing |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: from an "unnamed dolostone, clay, and sand formation of the Hawthorne Group"; originally Arikareean to Hemingfordian; age and formation after Velez-Juarbe & Domning, 2014 | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified argillaceous,sandy dolomite |
| Lithology description: dolostone, clay, and sand | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Associated major elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | UF CO48 | ||
| Database number: | 13076 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Subset of collection #: | 17859 | ||
| Created: | 2002-01-18 12:08:06 | Last modified: | 2014-03-06 08:58:38 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-01-18 12:08:06 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4356. | 5% 18320 | D. P. Domning. 1989. Fossil sirenians from the Suwannee River, Florida and Georgia. Miocene paleontology and stratigraphy of the Suwannee River Basin of North Florida and south Georgia. Southeastern Geological Society Field Trip Guidebook 30:54-60 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 34095 | D. K. Sarko, D. P. Domning, L. Marino and R. L. Reep. 2010. Estimating body size of fossil sirenians. Marine Mammals Science 26(4):937-959 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 48601 | J. Velez-Juarbe, D. P. Domning, and N. D. Pyenson. 2012. Iterative Evolution of Sympatric Seacow (Dugongidae, Sirenia) Assemblages during the Past ∼26 Million Years. PLoS One 7(2):e31294 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 50317 | J. Velez-Juarbe and D. P. Domning. 2014. Fossil Sirenia of the West Atlantic and Caribbean region. IX. Metaxytherium albifontanum, sp. nov. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(2):444-464 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |