F & W Mine (Pliocene of the United States)

Where: Orange County, Florida (28.6° N, 81.1° W: paleocoordinates 28.6° N, 80.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Nashua Formation, Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. S. Morgan. 1994. Miocene and Pliocene marine mammal faunas from the Bone Valley Formation of central Florida. Contributions in Marine Mammal Paleontology Honoring Frank C. Whitmore Jr., Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History 29:239-268 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 100408: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 09.12.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Balaenidae
Eubalaena sp. Gray 1864 right whale
 Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
aff. Megaptera sp. Gray 1846 humpback whale