Cummer Lumber Company Phosphate Mine Eocene (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Alachua County, Florida (29.7° N, 82.6° W: paleocoordinates 29.8° N, 74.9° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Ocala Formation (Jackson Group), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: E. H. Sellards. 1916. Fossil vertebrates from Florida: A new Miocene fauna; new Pliocene species; the Pleistocene fauna. Florida State Geological Survey, Annual Report 8:79-119 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 57123: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.12.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• "as far as can be determined, no other vertebrate specimens were ever recovered from the type locality of M. westoni" (Hulbert 1993:358county is given as Alachua by Simpson, Gilchrist by Hulbert
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