New Palmetto Mine (Neogene of the United States)

Where: Polk County, Florida (27.8° N, 82.0° W: paleocoordinates 28.0° N, 80.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bone Valley Member (Peace River Formation), Late/Upper Hemphillian (10.3 - 4.9 Ma)

• upper beds

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; phosphatic lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the FLMNH

Primary reference: C. K. Dodd, Jr. and G. S. Morgan. 1992. Fossil sea turtles from the early Pliocene Bone Valley Formation, central Florida. Journal of Herpetology 26(1):1-8 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 67804: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 10.12.2006

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Dermochelyidae
Psephophorus sp. von Meyer 1847 leatherback