Dean's Trucking Pit: Middle Miocene, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Pseudhipparion skinneri Webb and Hulbert 1986
Neohipparion trampasense (Edwards 1982)
Nannippus westoni (Simpson 1930)
Nannippus aztecus Mooser 1968
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae
Galeocerdo cuvier Peron and LeSueur 1822
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinidae indet. Jordan and Evermann 1896
Negaprion brevirostris Poey 1868
Carcharhinus sp. de Blainville 1816
Carcharhinus leucas (Valenciennes 1839)
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Isurus hastalis (Agassiz 1838)
recombined as Carcharodon hastalis
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Carcharocles megalodon (Agassiz 1835)
recombined as Otodus megalodon
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Carchariidae
Carcharias taurus Rafinesque 1810
Chondrichthyes - Rhinopristiformes - Pristidae
Pristis sp. Linck 1790
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Sarasota
Coordinates: 27.3° North, 82.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.6° North, 79.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Middle Miocene
Age range of interval:15.97000 - 11.60800 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Arcadia
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: Clarendonian?
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Museum repositories:FLMNH
Metadata
Also known as:SA024
Database number:161381
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:C. Pimiento
Created:2014-09-04 16:20:16 Last modified:2014-09-04 16:20:16
Access level:the public Released:2014-09-04 16:20:16
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

52569. C. Pimiento. 2014. Carcharocles megalodon unpublished collections from Natural History Museums around the world. [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento/C. Pimiento]