Hog Creek ("Pliocene"): Miocene, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Serridentinus sp. Osborn 1923
synonym of Gomphotherium
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion ingenuum (Leidy 1885)
recombined as Cormohipparion ingenuum
Hipparion plicatile (Leidy 1887)
recombined as Cormohipparion plicatile
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Sarasota
Coordinates: 27.0° North, 82.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.3° North, 79.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5-6
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Miocene
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:reworked specimens in an otherwise late Pleistocene fauna; "bone bed rests directly on Miocene limestone" but this is presumably not the source horizon because Simpson regarded the fauna as Pliocene
Metadata
Database number:18544
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-05-15 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:43
Access level:the public Released:2002-05-15 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
3132. G. G. Simpson. 1930. Tertiary Land Mammals of Florida. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 59(3):1-64 [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]