Allen's Farm: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Cetacea indet. Brisson 1762
    = ? Balaenoptera sp. Lacépède 1804
Hay 1923
probably Balaenoptera
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Mylodon sp. Owen 1859
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas columbi Falconer 1857
recombined as Mammuthus columbi
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut americanum (Kerr 1792)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Volusia
Coordinates: 29.2° North, 81.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.2° North, 81.0° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: marl
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: shell marl
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Station 120, Inland Waterway Canal
Database number:104046
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-02-05 08:54:25 Last modified:2011-02-04 15:54:25
Access level:the public Released:2011-02-05 08:54:25
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

15425. 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]

Secondary references:

35031 O. P. Hay. 1923. The Pleistocene of North America and its vertebrated animals from the states east of the Mississippi River and from the Canadian provinces east of longitude 95 degrees. Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication 322:1-499 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]