Occidental Mine (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Hamilton County, Florida (30.4° N, 83.0° W: paleocoordinates 30.7° N, 79.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: upper Member (Statenville Formation), Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• said to be early Clarendonian; equivalent to the Berryville Clay Member of the Coosawhatchie Formation that occurs in the Statenvile stratigraphic position in eastern Georgia. The Berryville Clay Member contains a Zone N10 to N11 planktonic foraminiferal assemblage (Huddlestun, 1988) (now in the Langhian according to Gradstein et al. 2004)

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. S. Morgan. 1989. Miocene vertebrate faunas from the Suwannee River basin of north Florida and south Georgia. Southeastern Geological Society Guidebook 30:26-53 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 18569: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995, edited by Mark Uhen and Patricia Holroyd

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• not the same as the upper Bone Valley Swift Mine fauna (see)
may be temporally mixed
Reptilia
 Testudines - Cheloniidae
Cheloniidae indet.3 Bonaparte 1832 sea turtle
 Testudines - Kinosternidae
"Kinosternidae indet." = Kinosternoidea3
"Kinosternidae indet." = Kinosternoidea3 Hay 1892 mud turtle
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudinidae indet.3 Batsch 1788 turtle
2 species, one small, one large
 Testudines - Emydidae
cf. Pseudemys sp.3 Gray 1856 cooter
 Testudines -
Pleurodira indet.3 Cope 1865 sideneck turtle
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922 gomphothere
 Sirenia - Dugongidae
Dioplotherium manigaulti2 Cope 1883 dugong
 Artiodactyla - Moschidae
Blastomerycinae indet.1 Frick 1937 musk deer
 Artiodactyla - Gelocidae
cf. Pseudoceras sp. Frick 1937 ruminant
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821 camel
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Calippus (Calippus) sp. Matthew and Stirton 1930 horse
two forms
Calippus martini Hesse 1936 horse
Pliohippus cf. pernix Marsh 1874 horse
Pseudhipparion curtivallum1 Quinn 1955 hipparionine horse
Nannippus sp. Matthew 1926 hipparionine horse
said to be described in MS of Hulbert, but no mention of this locality in Hulbert 1993
"Hippotherium ingenuum" = Cormohipparion ingenuum1 Leidy 1885 hipparionine horse
Hippotherium sp.1 Kaup 1832 hipparionine horse
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros