La Camelia Mine: Early/Lower Barstovian, Florida
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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? Heloderma sp.
Wiegmann 1829
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudinidae indet.
Batsch 1788
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Bourque 2016 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Trionychidae indet.
Gray 1825
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Bourque 2016 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Chelydridae
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Macrochelys sp.
Gray 1856
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Thomas et al. 2014 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Podocnemididae
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Podocnemididae indet.
Cope 1868
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Bourque 2016 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Sirenia
- Dugongidae
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"Hesperosiren" crataegensis
Simpson 1932
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| recombined as Metaxytherium crataegense | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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? Aphelops sp.
Owen 1845
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Merychippus isonesus
(Cope 1889)
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| recombined as Acritohippus isonesus | ||||||||||
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"Merychippus" gunteri
Simpson 1930
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"Merychippus" primus
(Osborn 1918)
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Anchitherium clarencei
Simpson 1932
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Squalodontidae
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? Squalodon sp.
Grateloup 1840
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Mammalia
- Palaeomerycidae
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Bouromeryx cf. parvus
(Cook 1922)
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= Bouromeryx americanus
Douglass 1899
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Liter and Prothero 2003 | |||||||||
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Rakomeryx sp.
Frick 1937
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Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Cynorca cf. proterva
Cope 1867
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= Prosthennops xiphodonticus
Barbour 1925
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| recombined as Stirtonhyus xiphodonticus | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Ticholeptus cf. hypsodus
Loomis 1924
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= Ticholeptus zygomaticus
Cope 1878
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Stevens et al. 2023 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Copemys sp.
Wood 1936
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
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Proheteromys sp.
Wood 1932
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= Geomyoidea indet.
Bonaparte 1845
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Heteromyidae
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Perognathus cf. minutus
James 1963
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Mylagaulidae
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Mylagaulus sp.
Cope 1878
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= Mylagaulidae indet.
Cope 1881
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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? Protospermophilus sp.
Gazin 1930
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Florida | County: | Gadsen |
| Coordinates: | 30.5° North, 84.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 30.8° North, 81.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| *Period: | Late/Upper Tertiary | *Epoch: | Middle Miocene | *Local age/stage: | Early/Lower Barstovian |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Barstovian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 16.30000 - 12.50000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified calcareous sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "well indurated, carbonate-cemented sandstone" | |
| Environment: | marginal marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Disassociated minor elements: | many |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,sieve,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:underlying horizon dated at 16.6 +/- 1.5 Ma (Sr isotope ratio); sample is not thought to be diagenetically altered: Bryant et al. 1992 the following are from the "Willacoochee Creek" fauna, specific locality not given: Carnivora indet. Lagomorpha indet. Camelidae indet. Protoceratidae indet. "? Blastomeryx sp." | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Englehard La Camelia Mine; Willacoochee Creek (in part) | ||
| Database number: | 18549 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Bloch, P. Holroyd | Enterer: | J. Alroy, P. Holroyd, R. Hulbert |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2008-08-19 11:17:30 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 1145. | J. D. Bryant. 1991. New early Barstovian (middle Miocene) vertebrates from the upper Torreya Formation, eastern Florida panhandle. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 11(4):472-489 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 59687 | J. R. Bourque. 2016. Side-Necked Turtles (Testudines, Pleurodira) from the Ancient Gulf Coastal Plain of Florida During Middle Cenozoic Megathermals. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 15(1):23-35 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] | |
| 86699 | M. S. Stevens, D. R. Prothero, C. Cleaveland, E. Welsh, K. Marriott, T. Htun, D. Balassa, S. M. Olson, K. I. Watmore and D. Wheeler. 2023. Systematics of the Late Oligocene and Miocene Oreodonts (Merycoidodontidae: Artiodactyla). New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 93:1-226 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] | |
| 50686 | T. M. Thomas, M. C. Granatosky, J. R. Bourque, K. L. Krysko, P. E. Moler, T. Gamble, E. Suarez, E. Leone, K. M. Enge and J. Roman. 2014. Taxonomic assessment of alligator snapping turtles (Chelydridae: Macrochelys), with the description of two new species from the southeastern United States. Zootaxa 3786(2):141-165 [J. Bloch/R. Hulbert] |