Swift Creek Mine: Early/Lower Clarendonian, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Artiodactyla indet.
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Cormohipparion occidentale (Leidy 1856)
Pseudhipparion curtivallum (Quinn 1955)
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832
Pliohippus pernix Marsh 1874
Calippus sp. (Matthew and Stirton 1930)
original and current combination Protohippus (Calippus)
Mammalia - Cetacea
Scaldicetus sp. Du Bus 1867
Mammalia - Gelocidae
Floridameryx sp. Webb 2008
Reptilia - Testudines
Kinosternidae indet. (Hay 1892)
spelled with current rank as Kinosternoidea
Reptilia - Testudines - Emydidae
Terrapene sp. Merrem 1820
Pseudemys sp. Gray 1856
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Hesperotestudo sp. (Williams 1950)
Reptilia
Gavialosuchus americanus (Sellards 1915)
synonym of Thecachampsa sericodon
Actinopteri - Acanthopteri - Sphyraenidae
Sphyraena sp. Artedi 1793
Actinopteri - Perciformes - Sparidae
Archosargus probatocephalus (Walbaum 1792)
Actinopteri - Acanthuriformes - Sciaenidae
Pogonias cromis Cope 1869
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae
Galeocerdo aduncus (Agassiz 1835)
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae
Hemipristis serra Agassiz 1835
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Rhizoprionodon sp. Whitley 1929
Carcharhinus sp. de Blainville 1816
Negaprion brevirostris Poey 1868
Galeocerdo contortus Gibbes 1847
recombined as Physogaleus contortus
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Carcharocles megalodon (Agassiz 1835)
recombined as Otodus megalodon
UF 232627-232633, UF 232744-232745
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Isurus hastalis (Agassiz 1838)
recombined as Carcharodon hastalis
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae
Dasyatis sp. Rafinesque 1810
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Hamilton
Coordinates: 30.4° North, 83.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.7° North, 80.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5-6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Clarendonian
Age range of interval:12.50000 - 9.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Statenville
Lithology and environment
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:FMNH
Metadata
Also known as:HA003
Database number:161374
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:C. Pimiento
Modifier:C. Pimiento Research group:vertebrate
Created:2014-09-04 14:14:11 Last modified:2014-09-04 14:14:34
Access level:the public Released:2014-09-04 14:14:11
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

52569. C. Pimiento. 2014. Carcharocles megalodon unpublished collections from Natural History Museums around the world. [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento/C. Pimiento]