Tyner Farm: Hemphillian, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Squamata
Squamata indet. Oppel 1811
"abundant"
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Amebelodon floridanus (Leidy 1886)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Aphelops mutilus Matthew 1924
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Nannippus aztecus Mooser 1968
Calippus hondurensis (Olson and McGrew 1941)
Mammalia - Palaeomerycidae
Pediomeryx hamiltoni Webb 1983
recombined as Yumaceras hamiltoni
Mammalia - Camelidae
Aepycamelus major (Leidy 1886)
Hemiauchenia minima (Leidy 1886)
Mammalia - Carnivora
Carnivora indet. Bowdich 1821
Mammalia - Rodentia
Rodentia indet. Bowdich 1821
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Thinobadistes cf. wetzeli Webb 1989
Mammalia - Chiroptera
Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
Anura indet. (Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Alachua
Coordinates: 29.8° North, 82.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.0° North, 80.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Late/Upper Tertiary *Epoch:Late/Upper Miocene
*Local age/stage:Early/Lower Hemphillian
Key time interval:Hemphillian
Age range of interval:9.40000 - 4.70000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandy claystone
Secondary lithology: breccia
Lithology description: "clay, sand, and limestone breccia"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:many
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Collection size:2800 specimens
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:26549
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-10-16 16:57:12 Last modified:2008-12-16 21:13:56
Access level:the public Released:2002-10-16 16:57:12
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

7292. R. C. Hulbert, A. Poyer, and S. D. Webb. 2002. Tyner Farm, a new early Hemphillian local fauna from north-central Florida. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(3):68A [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]