Where: Leon County, Florida (30.3° N, 84.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.7° N, 80.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: lower Member (Torreya Formation), Hemingfordian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• from five successive beds with thicknessess of 1-2", 12-20", 1-2", 3-4", and 14-16"; the second bed is the "primary vertebrate zone" and the first is "part of primary vertebrate zone"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; shelly/skeletal, green, yellow sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by S. J. Olsen, R. Cantwell, C. Cox

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying,

• "The fossil remains came to light during dragline operations... while making a road cut"

Primary reference: S. J. Olsen. 1964. The stratigraphic importance of a Lower Miocene vertebrate fauna from north Florida. Journal of Paleontology 38(3):477-482 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 18586: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994, edited by Richard Hulbert and Patricia Holroyd

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