Cowhouse Slough: Geringian - Monroecreekian, Florida
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Phlaocyon taylori
Hayes 2000
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Hayes 2000 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Miohippus sp.
Marsh 1874
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Merycoidodontidae indet.
Cook 1912
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Albright 1998 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Cynorca sp.
Cope 1867
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Albright 1998 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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= Nothokemas waldropi
Frailey 1978
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Hayes 2000 | |||||||||
replaces ID of Albright 1998b | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Geolabididae
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Centetodon sp.
Marsh 1872
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Albright 1998 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Megalagus sp.
Walker 1931
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= Megalagus abaconis
Hayes 2000
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Hayes 2000 | |||||||||
replaces ID of Albright 1998b; "Palaeolagus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Entoptychidae
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Entoptychinae indet.
Miller and Gidley 1918
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Albright 1998 | |||||||||
spelled with current rank as Entoptychidae | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Sciuridae indet.
Gray 1821
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Albright 1998 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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? Agnotocastor sp.
Stirton 1935
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Albright 1998 | |||||||||
see also Hayes 2000 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Eomyidae
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Eomyidae indet.
Winge 1887
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large: said to be "Proheteromys" by Hayes 2000, but this might be Harrymys | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Florida | County: | Hillsborough |
Coordinates: | 27.9° North, 82.1° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 28.0° North, 76.5° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 | ||
*Period: | Tertiary | *Local age/stage: | Early/Lower Arikareean |
Key time interval: | Geringian - Monroecreekian | ||
Age range of interval: | 29.50000 - 23.10000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:see also Morgan 1993 |
Metadata
Also known as: | Cow House Slough | ||
Database number: | 17487 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2006-08-04 12:36:20 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
2610. | G. S. Morgan. 1989. Miocene vertebrate faunas from the Suwannee River basin of north Florida and south Georgia. Southeastern Geological Society Guidebook 30:26-53 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |
Secondary references:
936 | L. B. Albright. 1998. The Arikareean Land Mammal Age in Texas and Florida: Southern extension of Great Plains faunas and Gulf Coastal Plain. Geological Society of America Special Paper 325:167-183 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
4229 | F. G. Hayes. 2000. The Brooksville 2 local fauna (Arikareean, latest Oligocene) Hernando County, Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 43(1):1-47 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |