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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Psephophorus sp. von Meyer 1847 leatherback |