SB-1A: Harrisonian, Florida
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Protosciurus sp.
Black 1963
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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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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Albright 1998 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Eomyidae
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Eomyidae indet.
Winge 1887
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Morgan 1989 | |||||||||
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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 | |||||||||
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Proheteromys floridanus
Wood 1932
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Morgan 1989 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Mesocyon sp.
Scott 1890
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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= ? Leptocyon sp.
Matthew 1918
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Albright 1998 | |||||||||
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Phlaocyon sp.
Matthew 1899
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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= Phlaocyon leucosteus
Matthew 1899
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Paroligobunis frazieri n. sp.
Frailey 1978
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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= Megalictis frazieri
Frailey 1978
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Arikarictis chapini
Hayes 2000
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Hayes 2000 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Amphicyonidae
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Mammacyon cf. obtusidens
Loomis 1936
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4 specimens | |||||||||
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Daphoenodon sp.
Peterson 1909
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Hayes 2000 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Palaeogalidae
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Palaeogale sp.
von Meyer 1846
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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= Palaeogale minuta
Gervais 1848
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Hayes 2000 | |||||||||
| Albright 1998b: may include additional carnivoran of Frailey | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Anchitheriinae indet.
(Leidy 1869)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| original and current combination Anchitheridae | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Nothokemas waldropi n. sp.
Frailey 1978
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Chiroptera
- Vespertilionidae
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Vespertilionidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Albright 1998 | |||||||||
| a bat | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
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Herpetotherium sp.
Cope 1873
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Albright 1998 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
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Scolecophidia indet.
(Duméril and Bibron 1844)
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Mead 2013 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| UF 268987, single trunk vertebra | ||||||||||
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Alligatoridae indet.
(Gray 1844)
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Hastings et al. 2023 | |||||||||
| UF 424639–41, 424637–8, and 424633–36 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Florida | County: | Suwannee |
| Coordinates: | 30.3° North, 83.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 30.6° North, 78.3° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4-5 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Miocene |
| Key time interval: | Harrisonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 23.10000 - 18.50000 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 24.5 ± 0.5 Ma (unknown) | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 25–24 Ma (Tedford et al., 2004)
Harrisonian | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection size: | 11 specimens |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:NISP 11+ | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Live Oak | ||
| Database number: | 17837 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, P. Mannion, J. Bloch | Enterer: | J. Alroy, R. Hulbert, P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | B. Allen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-09-27 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2023-07-29 06:01:39 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-09-27 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 1543. | D. Frailey. 1978. An Early Miocene (Arikareean) fauna from northcentral Florida (the SB-1A Local Fauna). Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas 75:1-20 [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] | |
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 84078 | A. K. Hastings, B. W. Schubert, J. R. Bourque and R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 2023. Oldest record of Alligator in southeastern North America. Palaeontologia Electronica 26(1):a6:1-19 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
| 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] | |
| 50261 | J. I. Mead. 2013. Scolecophidia (Serpentes) of the late Oligocene and early Miocene, North America, and a fossil history overview. Geobios 46:225-231 [J. Bloch/R. Hulbert] | |
| 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] | |
| 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] |