Where: Polk County, Florida (27.9° N, 82.0° W: paleocoordinates 28.1° N, 80.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Bone Valley Member (Peace River Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• Bradley Fauna; lower beds
•Previously Barstovian, but Missimer (1999) suggested that the Peace River Formation in Florida was likely deposited between 11-4.3Ma. The lower sequence is Tortonian, deposited between 11-8.5Ma, and the upper sequence is Zanclean and deposited between 5.2-4.3Ma
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lithified, pebbly, phosphatic, argillaceous, sandy siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: salvage,
Primary reference: G. S. Morgan. 1994. Miocene and Pliocene marine mammal faunas from the Bone Valley Formation of central Florida. Contributions in Marine Mammal Paleontology Honoring Frank C. Whitmore Jr., Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History 29:239-268 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 45459: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Nick Pyenson on 24.10.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Pomatodelphis bobengi Case 1934 toothed whale |