Occidental Mine: Langhian, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines
Stocker and Kirk 2016
Reptilia - Testudines - Emydidae
Stocker and Kirk 2016
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Stocker and Kirk 2016
2 species, one small, one large
Reptilia - Testudines - Cheloniidae
Cheloniidae indet. Bonaparte 1832
Stocker and Kirk 2016
Reptilia - Testudines
Stocker and Kirk 2016
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Mammalia - Sirenia - Dugongidae
Domning 1989
Mammalia - Camelidae
Mammalia - Moschidae
Blastomeryx sp. Cope 1877
    = Blastomerycinae indet. Frick 1937
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Gelocidae
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Calippus (Calippus) sp. Matthew and Stirton 1930
two forms
Alroy 2002
    = Hippotherium sp. Kaup 1832
Alroy 2002
Alroy 2002
is listed by Webb and Hulbert 1986
Nannippus sp. (Matthew 1926)
said to be described in MS of Hulbert, but no mention of this locality in Hulbert 1993
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Hamilton
Coordinates: 30.4° North, 83.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.6° North, 76.9° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Langhian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
*Period:Tertiary *Local age/stage:Early/Lower Clarendonian
Key time interval: Langhian
Age range of interval: 15.98 - 13.82 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Statenville Member:upper
Stratigraphy comments: said to be early Clarendonian; equivalent to the Berryville Clay Member of the Coosawhatchie Formation that occurs in the Statenvile stratigraphic position in eastern Georgia. The Berryville Clay Member contains a Zone N10 to N11 planktonic foraminiferal assemblage (Huddlestun, 1988) (now in the Langhian according to Gradstein et al. 2004)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marginal marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:not the same as the upper Bone Valley Swift Mine fauna (see)
may be temporally mixed
Metadata
Database number:18569
Authorizer:J. Alroy, M. Uhen, P. Holroyd Enterer:J. Alroy, P. Holroyd, M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:1995-03-26 00:00:00 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:1995-03-26 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC0
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]
16573 D. P. Domning. 1989. Fossil Sirenia of the West Atlantic and Caribbean Region. II. Dioplotherium manigaulti Cope, 1883. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 9(4):415-428 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
48600 P. F. Huddlestun. 1988. A revision of the lithostratigraphic units of the Coastal Plain of Georgia: The Miocene through Holocene. Georgia Geological Survey Bulletin 104 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
58115 M. R. Stocker and E. C. Kirk. 2016. The first amphisbaenians from Texas, with notes on other squamates from the middle Eocene Purple Bench locality. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (e1094081)1-15 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]