Lockwood Meadows (Neogene of the United States)

Where: Sarasota County, Florida (27.0° N, 82.2° W: paleocoordinates 27.2° N, 80.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Bone Valley Member (Peace River Formation), Late/Upper Hemphillian (10.3 - 4.9 Ma)

• ; upper beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. J. MacFadden. 1986. Fossil horses from "Eohippus" (Hyracotherium) to Equus; scaling, Cope's law, and the evolution of body size. Paleobiology 12(4):355-369 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 18553: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
cf. Mammut sp.1 Blumenbach 1799 mastodon
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922 gomphothere
 Placentalia -
Carnivora indet. Bowdich 1821 carnivoran
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Neohipparion eurystyle Cope 1893 hipparionine horse
Hippotherium sp.1 Kaup 1832 hipparionine horse
Nannippus aztecus1 Mooser 1968 hipparionine horse
Astrohippus ? stockii2 Lance 1950 horse
Dinohippus sp.2 Quinn 1955 horse
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821 camel