Waccasassa River 9A: Blancan, Florida
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Tapiridae
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Tapirus (Helicotapirus) lundeliusi
Hulbert 2010
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Hemiauchenia gracilis
Meachen 2005
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Meachen 2005 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Gopherus polyphemus
(Daudin 1802)
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The sample includes a partial HYPO and several bridge elements (SSH). | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Florida | County: | Levy |
Coordinates: | 29.3° North, 82.7° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 29.4° North, 82.1° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
Key time interval: | Blancan |
Age range of interval: | 4.90000 - 1.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: middle late to latest Blancan, ca 1.6-2.2 Ma |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Glacial or sequence phase: | interglacial |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:Sangamonian; sites IIB and III are Wisconsinan possibly relevant: Leopardus amnicola ("Felis wiedii amnicola") Werdelin 1985, from "Waccasassa River" (Wisconsinan?) Frazier 1981 mentions "Wac 7B" and "Wac 1A" and states that they are "Rancholabrean, possibly Irvingtonian" |
Metadata
Also known as: | UF locality LV040 | ||
Database number: | 98315 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen, J. Alroy, E. Vlachos | Enterer: | M. Uhen, J. Alroy, E. Vlachos |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2010-09-30 11:39:06 | Last modified: | 2010-09-30 14:53:11 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-09-30 11:39:06 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
33964. | R. C. Hulbert. 2010. A new early Pleistocene tapir (Mammalia: Perissodactyla) from Florida, with a review of Blancan tapirs from around the state. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 49(3):67-126 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
66358 | R. Franz and I. R. Quitmyer. 2005. A fossil and zooarchaeological history of the gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) in the Southeastern United States. Bull. Fla. Mus. Nat. History 45(4):179-199 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
34616 | J. A. Meachen. 2005. A new species of Hemiauchenia (Artiodactyla, Camelidae) from the late Blancan of Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 45(4):435-447 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |