Where: Hardee County, Florida (27.5° N, 81.8° W: paleocoordinates 27.7° N, 80.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bone Valley Formation, Late/Upper Hemphillian (10.3 - 4.9 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; phosphatic limestone
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 67805: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 10.12.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Chelonia sp." = Testudines
"Chelonia sp." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle |