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 | |
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Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922 gomphothere | |
Carnivora indet. Bowdich 1821 carnivoran | |
Neohipparion eurystyle, Hippotherium sp.1, Nannippus aztecus1, Astrohippus ? stockii2, Dinohippus sp.2
Neohipparion eurystyle Cope 1893 hipparionine horse | |
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros | |
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821 camel |