Mead Pit (Pliocene of the United States)

Where: Seminole County, Florida (28.3° N, 81.3° W: paleocoordinates 28.4° N, 80.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

Environment/lithology: marine; 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 181317: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Nicholas Visalden on 06.09.2016, edited by Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
aff. Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède 1804 minke whale