Hookers Prairie Mine, Pliocene (Pliocene of the United States)

Where: Polk County, Florida (27.8° N, 81.9° W: paleocoordinates 27.9° N, 81.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Bone Valley Formation, Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• Palmetto Fauna. Morgan 1994 seems to contradict the Pliocene age assigned to the Hookers Prarie Fossils, so there are two collections for the Hookers Prarie Mine, one Serravalian and one Zanclean.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, pebbly, phosphatic, argillaceous, sandy sandstone

• Clastic rock unit consisting primarily of pebble- to sand-sized phosphates in a matrix of clay and quartz sand.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: salvage,

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 95374: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 14.04.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudines - Cheloniidae
Chelonia sp., Lepidochelys sensu lato sp.
Chelonia sp. Brongniart 1800 green sea turtle
Lepidochelys sensu lato sp. Fitzinger 1843 Ridley sea turtle