Mulberry Phosphate Mines (Neogene of the United States)

Where: Hardee or Polk County, Florida (27.7° N, 81.9° W: paleocoordinates 27.9° N, 80.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

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

• "Late late Hemphillian" (Wang et al. 1999)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: X. Wang, R. H. Tedford, and B. E. Taylor. 1999. Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 243:1-392 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 18565: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002, edited by Mark Uhen and Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Sirenia - Dugongidae
"Metaxytherium floridanum" = Metaxytherium floridanum1, "Felsinotherium ossivallense" = Metaxytherium floridanum2
"Metaxytherium floridanum" = Metaxytherium floridanum1 Hay 1922 dugong
"Felsinotherium ossivallense" = Metaxytherium floridanum2 Hay 1922 dugong
 Carnivora - Canidae
Borophagus pugnator Cook 1922 bone-crushing dog
Borophagus dudleyi n. sp. White 1941 bone-crushing dog