Tiger Bay Mine: Late/Upper Hemphillian, Florida
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Kinosternoidea
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Sternotherus bonevalleyensis
Bourque and Schubert 2015
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Bourque and Schubert 2015 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Pliomastodon sellardsi
Simpson 1930
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= Mammut matthewi
Osborn 1921
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Neohipparion eurystyle
(Cope 1893)
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Hulbert 1987 | |||||||||
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Nannippus minor
(Sellards 1916)
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= Nannippus aztecus
Mooser 1968
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Dinohippus mexicanus
(Lance 1950)
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MacFadden 1986 | |||||||||
| original and current combination Pliohippus (Pliohippus) mexicanus | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Teleoceras cf. fossiger
(Cope 1878)
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= Teleoceras hicksi
Cook 1927
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Prothero 1989 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Tapiridae
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Tapirus polkensis
(Olsen 1960)
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Hulbert et al. 2009 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Hemiauchenia sp.
Gervais and Ameghino 1880
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Mammalia
- Protoceratidae
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Kyptoceras amatorum
Webb 1981
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Florida | County: | Polk |
| Coordinates: | 27.9° North, 81.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 28.1° North, 80.1° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | ||
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Miocene |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Hemphillian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 9.40000 - 4.70000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Hawthorn | Formation: | Peace River | Member: | Bone Valley |
| Stratigraphy comments: upper beds | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 18599 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, E. Vlachos, J. Bloch | Enterer: | J. Alroy, R. Hulbert, E. Vlachos |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2018-02-05 15:50:47 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3570. | S. D. Webb. 1981. Kyptoceras amatorum, New Genus and Species from the Pliocene of Florida, the Last Protoceratid Artiodactyl. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 1(3-4):357-365 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 64340 | J. R. Bourque and B. W. Schubert. 2015. Fossil musk turtles (Kinosternidae, Sternotherus) from the late Miocene–early Pliocene (Hemphillian) of Tennessee and Florida. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(1):1-19 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
| 50347 | R. C. Hulbert, S. C. Wallace, W. W. Klippel and P. W. Parmalee. 2009. Cranial morphology and systematics of an extraordinary sample of the late Neogene dwarf tapir, Tapirus polkensis (Olsen). Journal of Paleontology 83(2):238-262 [J. Bloch/R. Hulbert] | |
| 3850 | 5% 23520 | R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1987. Late Neogene Neohipparion (Mammalia, Equidae) from the Gulf Coastal Plain of Florida and Texas. Journal of Paleontology 61(4):809-830 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Alroy] |
| 3851 | B. J. MacFadden. 1986. Fossil horses from "Eohippus" (Hyracotherium) to Equus; scaling, Cope's law, and the evolution of body size. Paleobiology 12(4):355-369 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers] | |
| 6328 | D. R. Prothero. 1989. Personal communication regarding rhinocerotid identifications. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |