White Springs 1A: Arikareean, Florida
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Sciuridae indet.
Gray 1821
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"squirrel" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
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Proheteromys sp.
Wood 1932
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= Geomyoidea indet.
Bonaparte 1845
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Geomyoidea indet.
Bonaparte 1845
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"geomyoid" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Heteromyidae
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Proheteromys cf. floridanus
Wood 1932
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Proheteromys magnus
Wood 1932
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= Harrymys cf. magnus
Wood 1932
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Eomyidae
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Eomyidae indet.
Winge 1887
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"eomyid" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Castoridae indet.
Gray 1821
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= Neatocastor sp.
Korth 1996
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Hayes 2000 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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? Leidymys sp.
Wood 1936
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Hayes 2000 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Palaeolagus sp.
Leidy 1856
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= Archaeolagus sp.
Dice 1917
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Hayes 2000 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Soricidae indet.
Fischer 1814
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"small shrew" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Parahippus sp.
(Leidy 1858)
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= Anchippus texanus
Leidy 1868
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Hayes 2000 | |||||||||
recombined as Desmatippus texanus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Camelidae
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? Nothokemas sp.
White 1947
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Hayes 2000 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Merycoidodontidae indet.
Cook 1912
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Hayes 2000 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Groeberida
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Herpetotherium sp.
Cope 1873
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Hayes 2000 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Florida | County: | Columbia |
Coordinates: | 30.0° North, 82.6° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 30.2° North, 77.3° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
*Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Miocene |
Key time interval: | Arikareean | ||
Age range of interval: | 30.80000 - 20.43000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Parachucla | Member: | Porters Landing |
Stratigraphic resolution: | member |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | brown,gray argillaceous sandstone |
Lithology description: light gray to buff to brown, slightly clayey, fine quartz sand with a minor percentage of fine phosphatic grains | |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | bulk,selective quarrying,sieve |
Taxonomic list comments:said to be "earliest Miocene (Arikareean)" informal names in text matched to proper names in table for "White Springs" "Canidae indet." is listed in table but can't be matched to a particular locality based on text |
Metadata
Also known as: | C048 | ||
Database number: | 17859 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Collections that are a subset of this one: | |||
Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2003-12-26 18:27:18 |
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:
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
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] | |
9613 | B. J. MacFadden and G. S. Morgan. 2003. New oreodont (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from the late Oligocene (early Arikareean) of Florida. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 279:368-396 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
34095 | D. K. Sarko, D. P. Domning, L. Marino and R. L. Reep. 2010. Estimating body size of fossil sirenians. Marine Mammals Science 26(4):937-959 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |