Martin-Anthony Roadcut Oreodont Site ( of the United States)

Where: Marion County, Florida (29.3° N, 82.2° W: paleocoordinates 29.6° N, 77.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Harrisonian (24.8 - 20.4 Ma)

• said to be "late Arikareean" = Harrisonian

•formation unknown, but probably either "either the Tampa Limestone or the basal limestone unit of the Hawthorne"

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

• "marine limestone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by H. K. Brooks; reposited in the FLMNH

Primary reference: B. J. MacFadden. 1980. An early Miocene land mammal (Oreodonta) from a marine limestone in northern Florida. Journal of Paleontology 54(1):93-101 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 18558: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 13.10.1999

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
"Phenacocoelus luskensis" = Phenacocoelus kayi
"Phenacocoelus luskensis" = Phenacocoelus kayi Schultz and Falkenbach 1950 oreodont
see also Tedford and Hunter 1984