Allen's Farm: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Florida
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenopteridae
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Cetacea indet.
Brisson 1762
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= ? Balaenoptera sp.
Lacépède 1804
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Hay 1923 | |||||||||
probably Balaenoptera | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Mylodontidae
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Mylodon sp.
Owen 1859
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Elephas columbi
Falconer 1857
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recombined as Mammuthus columbi | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Mammut americanum
(Kerr 1792)
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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] |