Where: Pinellas County, Florida (27.8° N, 82.7° W: paleocoordinates 27.9° N, 82.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Pinecrest Beds Member (Tamiami Formation), Blancan (4.9 - 1.8 Ma)
• from a single "0.5 to 1.0 m thick layer"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; black, sandy mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: salvage, quarrying,
Primary reference: G. S. Morgan and R. B. Ridgway. 1987. Late Pliocene (late Blancan) vertebrates from the St. Petersburg Times site, Pinellas County, Florida, with a brief review of Florida Blancan faunas. Papers in Florida Paleontology 1:1-22 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 19764: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Viviparus georgianus snail | |
Actinopteri | |
Ictalurus sp. Rafinesque 1820 catfish | |
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843 gar | |
Reptilia | |
Alligator cf. mississippiensis Daudin 1801 American alligator | |
Aves | |
Eudocimus sp. Wagler 1832 ibis | |
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Podilymbus sp. Lesson 1831 grebe | |
"Porphyrula sp." = Porphyrio Brisson 1760 rail
Fulica sp. Linnaeus 1758 rail | |
Reptilia | |
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle | |
"Macroclemys cf. temmincki" = Macrochelys temminckii
"Macroclemys cf. temmincki" = Macrochelys temminckii Troost 1835 Alligator snapping turtle | |
Kinosternon sp. von Spix 1824 mud turtle | |
Pseudemys platymarginata cooter
Terrapene cf. carolina Linnaeus 1758 common box turtle | |
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Nerodia cf. taxispilota Holbrook 1842 brown water snake | |
Mammalia | |
Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922 gomphothere | |
"Glyptotherium cf. arizonae" = Glyptotherium texanum
"Glyptotherium cf. arizonae" = Glyptotherium texanum Osborn 1903 glyptodon | |
Holmesina floridanus Robertson 1976 edentate | |
Megalonyx leptostomus Cope 1893 edentate | |
cf. Procyon sp. Storr 1780 raccoon | |
Nannippus peninsulatus Cope 1885 hipparionine horse
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
cf. Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832 New World deer | |
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit | |
Amphibia | |
Siren cf. lacertina Linnaeus 1766 greater siren | |
Rana sp. Linnaeus 1758 frog |