Leisey Shell Pit 1C (Neogene of the United States)

Where: Hillsborough County, Florida (27.7° N, 82.5° W: paleocoordinates 27.9° N, 80.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Bone Valley Formation, late Early Hemphillian (10.3 - 4.9 Ma)

• "late early Hemphillian"

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying

Primary reference: R. C. Hulbert, Jr. and G. S. Morgan. 1989. Stratigraphy, paleoecology, and vertebrate fauna of the Leisey Shell Pit Local Fauna, early Pleistocene (Irvingtonian) of southwestern Florida. Papers in Florida Paleontology 2:1-19 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 18552: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993

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Taxonomic list

• list mostly repeated by Morgan and Hulbert 1995 as "Leisey Shell Pit (Upper Bone Valley)"
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Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
cf. Aphelops sp.
cf. Aphelops sp. Owen 1845 rhinoceros
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Nannippus aztecus, "Hippotherium ingenuum" = Cormohipparion ingenuum, Neohipparion eurystyle
Nannippus aztecus Mooser 1968 hipparionine horse
"Hippotherium ingenuum" = Cormohipparion ingenuum Leidy 1885 hipparionine horse
Neohipparion eurystyle Cope 1893 hipparionine horse