Port Manatee (Neogene of the United States)

Where: Manatee County, Florida (27.5° N, 82.5° W: paleocoordinates 27.7° N, 80.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

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

• Late Early Hemphillian (Domning, 1988)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Primary reference: R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1988. Cormohipparion and Hipparion (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Equidae) from the Late Neogene of Florida. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 33(5):229-338 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 18581: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993, edited by Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

• Port Manatee Local fauna
Mammalia
 Sirenia - Dugongidae
Metaxytherium floridanum2 Hay 1922 dugong
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Indarctos sp.2 Pilgrim 1913 bear
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
cf. Dinohippus sp. Quinn 1955 horse
"Hippotherium plicatile" = Cormohipparion plicatile1 Leidy 1887 hipparionine horse
"Hippotherium ? emsliei" = Cormohipparion emsliei1 Hulbert 1988 hipparionine horse
"Hippotherium ingenuum" = Cormohipparion ingenuum1 Leidy 1885 hipparionine horse
Hipparion cf. tehonense Merriam 1916 hipparionine horse
Pseudhipparion cf. simpsoni Webb and Hulbert 1986 hipparionine horse
Pseudhipparion skinneri Webb and Hulbert 1986 hipparionine horse
Neohipparion eurystyle Cope 1893 hipparionine horse
Nannippus morgani3 Hulbert 1993 hipparionine horse
N. sp. "3"
Nannippus aztecus1 Mooser 1968 hipparionine horse