Buda Mine: Chattian, Florida
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Apatemyidae
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Sinclairella simplicidens n. sp.
Czaplewski and Morgan 2015
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Czaplewski and Morgan 2015 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
UF 97383 (holotype), right M2 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Anchitheriinae indet.
(Leidy 1869)
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original and current combination Anchitheridae | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Chalicotheriidae
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Moropus sp.
Marsh 1877
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= Moropus cf. oregonensis
Leidy 1873
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Coombs et al. 2001 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Hypertragulidae
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Nanotragulus loomisi
Lull 1922
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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informal Camelid indet.
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= Nothokemas sp.
White 1947
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Hayes 2000 | |||||||||
(two forms) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Phenacocoelinae indet.
Schultz and Falkenbach 1950
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invalid subgroup of Merycoidodontidae | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Cynorca sp.
Cope 1867
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= Tayassuinae indet.
Palmer 1897
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
comparisons to both C. sociale and "C. proterva" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Nimravidae
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Nimravidae indet.
Cope 1880
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Mustelidae indet.
Fischer 1817
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Amphicyonidae
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Daphoenodon notionastes n. sp.
Frailey 1979
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(1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Cormocyon cf. copei
Wang and Tedford 1992
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
Cynarctoides lemur
(Cope 1879)
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
NOT "C. sp." in original list, which is P. achoros | ||||||||||
Bassariscops achoros n. sp.
Frailey 1979
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(9 measurements) | ||||||||||
= Phlaocyon achoros
Frailey 1979
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
includes "Cynarctoides sp." according to Wang et al. 1999 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Geolabididae
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Centetodon sp.
Marsh 1872
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= Centetodon magnus
Clark 1936
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Hayes 2000 | |||||||||
Albright 1996 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Erinaceidae
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Amphechinus sp.
Aymard 1850
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Rich and Patton 1975 | |||||||||
= Parvericius sp.
Koerner 1940
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Albright 1998 | |||||||||
confirmed by Hayes 2000 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
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Texomys sp.
Slaughter 1981
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Albright 1996 | |||||||||
Proheteromys sp.
Wood 1932
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= Geomyoidea indet.
Bonaparte 1845
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
(also listed by Morgan 1989, Albright 1998b) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Eomyidae
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Eomyidae indet.
Winge 1887
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Morgan 1989 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Heteromyidae
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Proheteromys magnus
Wood 1932
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= Harrymys cf. magnus
Wood 1932
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Albright 1998 | |||||||||
"Proheteromys sp." Morgan 1989, in part | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Florida | County: | Alachua |
Coordinates: | 29.8° North, 82.6° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 29.9° North, 77.3° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
Stage: | Chattian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
*Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Miocene |
Key time interval: | Chattian | ||
Age range of interval: | 27.82000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago | ||
Age estimate: | 25 to 23 Ma (other) | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Crystal River | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Czaplewski & Morgan (2015) review stratigraphic evidence and conclude "Pending a more detailed biochronology of Florida Arikareean faunas, we tentatively regard the Buda Local Fauna as early late Arikareean in age (Ar3; 25-23 Ma)." |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | claystone |
Environment: | sinkhole |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | mesofossils,microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | salvage,selective quarrying |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | FLMNH |
Taxonomic list comments:list is definitely incomplete as there are additional "small mammals" |
Metadata
Database number: | 17764 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, B. Allen | Enterer: | J. Alroy, B. Allen |
Modifier: | B. Allen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1994-07-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2023-07-29 05:49:48 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1994-07-26 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
1544. | D. Frailey. 1979. The large mammals of the Buda Local Fauna (Arikareean, Alachua County, Florida). Bulletin of the Florida State Museum 24(2) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |
Secondary references:
934 | ETE 1536 | L. B. Albright. 1996. Insectivores, rodents, and carnivores of the Toledo Bend Local Fauna: an Arikareean (earliest Miocene) assemblage from the Texas Coastal Plain. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16(3):458-473 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Wagner] |
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] | |
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
4181 | M. C. Coombs, R. M. Hunt, Jr., E. Stepleton, L. B. Albright, III, and T. J. Fremd. 2001. Stratigraphy, chronology, biogeography, and taxonomy of early Miocene small chalicotheres of North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(3):607-620 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
85379 | N. J. Czaplewski and G. S. Morgan. 2015. A late-surviving apatemyid (Mammalia: Apatotheria) from the latest Oligocene of Florida, USA. PeerJ 3:e1509 [B. Allen/B. Allen] | |
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] | |
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] | |
24289 | T. H. V. Rich and T. H. Patton. 1975. First record of a fossil hedgehog from Florida (Erinaceidae, Mammalia). Journal of Mammalogy 56(3):692-596 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
3558 | X. Wang, R. H. Tedford, and B. E. Taylor. 1999. Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 243:1-392 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |