Midway: Hemingfordian, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Auffenberg 1957
FGS V-3513 and 4186
Reptilia - Testudines - Podocnemididae
Bourque 2016
Reptilia - Testudines - Chelydridae
Bourque 2016
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Bourque 2016
Reptilia - Testudines - Emydidae
Bourque 2016
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Bourque 2016
"large-bodied testudinid"
Hesperotestudo sp. (Williams 1950)
Bourque 2016
"small testudinid of the Hesperotestudo turgida group"
Mammalia - Sirenia - Dugongidae
Domning and Aguilera 2008
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
? Aphelops sp. Owen 1845
DUPLICATE REF 3135 or 3136
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
see Simpson 1930b DUPLICATE REF 3135 or 3136
NOT a jun. syn. of A. navasotae - Bryant 1990 pers. comm. DUPLICATE REF 3135 or 3136
Alroy 2002
DUPLICATE REF 3135 or 3136
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
DUPLICATE REF 3135 or 3136
Mammalia - Protoceratidae
Patton and Taylor 1971
includes "cf. Miolabis sp." of Simpson, see Patton 1967
Mammalia - Palaeomerycidae
Alroy 2002
only "A. sp." is listed by Bryant et al. 1992; this may include "?Dromomeryx cf. americanus" DUPLICATE REF 3135 or 3136
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
see Simpson 1930b DUPLICATE REF 3135 or 3136
Mammalia - Carnivora - Procyonidae
MacFadden et al. 1991
"near Arctonasua or Cyonasua"
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
canid close to "Tomarctus" and "Cynodesmus" DUPLICATE REF 3135 or 3136
Mammalia - Rodentia - Mylagaulidae
Mesogaulus sp. Riggs 1899
Morgan and Pratt 1988
    = Mylagaulidae indet. Cope 1881
Alroy 2002
repeated by MacFadden et al. 1991
Mammalia - Rodentia - Heteromyidae
DUPLICATE REF 3135 or 3136
Alroy 2002
DUPLICATE REF 3135 or 3136
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Gadsen
Coordinates: 30.5° North, 84.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.1° North, 77.1° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval: Hemingfordian
Age range of interval: 18.5 - 16.3 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Torreya Member:Dogtown
Local section:Torre Local bed:2
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:NISP not determinable from text
MacFadden et al. 1991 list Rakomeryx, not clear which original i.d. this replaces
Metadata
Also known as:Fuller's Earth Company
DUPLICATE REF 3135 or 3136
Database number:18561
Authorizer:J. Alroy, P. Holroyd, M. Uhen, P. Mannion Enterer:J. Alroy, P. Mannion, M. Uhen, P. Holroyd
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
3135. G. G. Simpson. 1932. Miocene land mammals from Florida. Bulletin of the Florida State Geological Survey 10:7-41 [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]
46627 W. Auffenberg. 1957. Notes on fossil crocodilians from Southeastern United States. Quarterly Journal of The Florida Academy of Sciences 20:107-113 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
59687 J. R. Bourque. 2016. Side-Necked Turtles (Testudines, Pleurodira) from the Ancient Gulf Coastal Plain of Florida During Middle Cenozoic Megathermals. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 15(1):23-35 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]
27454 D. P. Domning and O. A. Aguilera. 2008. Fossil Sirenia of the West Atlantic and Caribbeaan Region. VIII. Nanosiren garciae, gen. et sp. nov. and Nanosiren sanchezi, sp. nov. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(2):479-500 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
2371 B. J. MacFadden, J. D. Bryant, and P. A. Mueller. 1991. Sr-isotopic, paleomagnetic, and biostratigraphic calibration of horse evolution: evidence from the Miocene of Florida. Geology 19(3):242-245 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Wagner]
2614 G. S. Morgan and A. E. Pratt. 1988. Southeastern Geological Society Guidebook 29 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
2739 T. H. Patton and B. E. Taylor. 1971. The Synthetoceratinae (Mammalia, Tylopoda, Protoceratidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 145(2):119-218 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/B. Beatty]