Buda Mine: Chattian, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Apatemyidae
Czaplewski and Morgan 2015 4 specimens
UF 97383 (holotype), right M2
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Emballonuridae
Morgan and Czaplewski 2023 1 specimen
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
Amphechinus sp. Aymard 1850
Rich and Patton 1975
Albright 1998
confirmed by Hayes 2000
Mammalia - Geolabididae
    = Centetodon magnus Clark 1936
Hayes 2000
Albright 1996
Mammalia - Carnivora - Nimravidae
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
(9 measurements)
Alroy 2002
includes "Cynarctoides sp." according to Wang et al. 1999
Wang et al. 1999
NOT "C. sp." in original list, which is P. achoros
Wang et al. 1999
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mustelidae indet. Batsch 1788
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
(1 measurement)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
    = Moropus cf. oregonensis Leidy 1873
Coombs et al. 2001
Mammalia - Hypertragulidae
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
    = Tayassuinae indet. Palmer 1897
Alroy 2002
comparisons to both C. sociale and "C. proterva"
Mammalia - Camelidae
Hayes 2000
(two forms)
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Mammalia - Rodentia
Albright 1996
    = Geomyoidea indet. Bonaparte 1845
Alroy 2002
(also listed by Morgan 1989, Albright 1998b)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Eomyidae
Eomyidae indet. Winge 1887
Morgan 1989
Mammalia - Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Albright 1998
"Proheteromys sp." Morgan 1989, in part
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Alachua
Coordinates: 29.8° North, 82.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.5° North, 73.1° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Oligocene
Stage: Chattian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 4
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Miocene
Key time interval: Chattian
Age range of interval: 27.3 - 23.04 m.y. ago
Age estimate: 25 to 23 Ma (other)
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Crystal River
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Czaplewski & Morgan (2015) review stratigraphic evidence and conclude "Pending a more detailed biochronology of Florida Arikareean faunas, we tentatively regard the Buda Local Fauna as early late Arikareean in age (Ar3; 25-23 Ma)."
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: claystone
Environment:sinkhole
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:salvage,selective quarrying
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:FLMNH
Taxonomic list comments:list is definitely incomplete as there are additional "small mammals"
Metadata
Database number:17764
Authorizer:J. Alroy, M. Uhen, B. Allen Enterer:J. Alroy, B. Allen, M. Uhen
Modifier:B. Allen Research group:vertebrate
Created:1994-07-26 00:00:00 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:1994-07-26 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
1544. D. Frailey. 1979. The large mammals of the Buda Local Fauna (Arikareean, Alachua County, Florida). Bulletin of the Florida State Museum 24(2) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]

Secondary references:

934ETE 1536L. B. Albright. 1996. Insectivores, rodents, and carnivores of the Toledo Bend Local Fauna: an Arikareean (earliest Miocene) assemblage from the Texas Coastal Plain. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16(3):458-473 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Wagner]
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]
4181 M. C. Coombs, R. M. Hunt, Jr., E. Stepleton, L. B. Albright, III, and T. J. Fremd. 2001. Stratigraphy, chronology, biogeography, and taxonomy of early Miocene small chalicotheres of North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(3):607-620 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
85379 N. J. Czaplewski and G. S. Morgan. 2015. A late-surviving apatemyid (Mammalia: Apatotheria) from the latest Oligocene of Florida, USA. PeerJ 3:e1509 [B. Allen/B. Allen]
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]
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]
92216 G. S. Morgan and N. J. Czaplewski. 2023. New bats in the tropical family Embollonuridae (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from the Oligocene and Early Miocen of Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 60(3):133-234 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
24289 T. H. V. Rich and T. H. Patton. 1975. First record of a fossil hedgehog from Florida (Erinaceidae, Mammalia). Journal of Mammalogy 56(3):692-596 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
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]