Kingsford Mine (Younger) (Miocene to of the United States)

Where: Polk County, Florida (27.9° N, 81.8° W: paleocoordinates 28.1° N, 80.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Bone Valley Formation, Tortonian to Tortonian (11.6 - 3.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; pebbly, phosphatic, argillaceous, sandy sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. B. Wright. 1989. Phylogenetic relationships of Catagonus wagneri: sister taxa from the Tertiary of North America. Advances in Neotropical Mammalogy 281-308 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 18548: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993, edited by Mark Uhen, Catalina Pimiento and Richard Hulbert

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Taxonomic list

• list separated out from Bradley fauna on a priori grounds: so sue me possibly relevant: Enhydritherium terraenovae Morgan 1994: "Kingsford Mine"
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Dinohippus mexicanus5 Lance 1950 horse
"IMC Kingsford Mine"
"Hippotherium emsliei" = Cormohipparion emsliei1 Hulbert 1988 hipparionine horse
Neohipparion eurystyle3 Cope 1893 hipparionine horse
 Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tapirus polkensis2 Olsen 1960 tapir
 Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Ninoziphius platyrostris6 Muizon 1983 beaked whale
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
"Catagonus brachydontus" = Protherohyus brachydontus
"Catagonus brachydontus" = Protherohyus brachydontus Dalquest and Mooser 1980 peccary
 Artiodactyla - Antilocapridae
Hexameryx simpsoni8 White 1941 pronghorn
Actinopteri
 Tetraodontiformes - Diodontidae
Diodon circumflexus n. sp.4 Leriche 1942
Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon7
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon7 Agassiz 1835 megalodon
Locality information based on reference's supporting information aided with FLMNH online database