Also known as UF locality OR003
Where: Orange County, Florida (28.6° N, 81.5° W: paleocoordinates 28.7° N, 80.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Blancan (4.9 - 1.8 Ma)
• "Late early or early late Blancan, ca. 2.9-2.5 Ma... [there are] two fossiliferous horizons with abundant marine invertebrates and invertebrates" and the mammals are from the "younger bed"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; argillaceous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the FLMNH
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 113276: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 25.07.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Tapirus sp. Brisson 1762 tapir | |
Nannippus peninsulatus Cope 1885 hipparionine horse
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
Dasypus bellus Simpson 1929 beautiful armadillo |