Cummer Lumber Company Phosphate Mine: Hemphillian, Florida
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Merychippus westoni n. sp.
Simpson 1930
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| recombined as Nannippus westoni | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Florida | County: | Gilchrist |
| Coordinates: | 29.7° North, 82.6° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 29.9° North, 80.9° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | ||
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Miocene |
| Key time interval: | Hemphillian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 9.40000 - 4.70000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: Hulbert, Jr. 1987 (thesis): "Stratigraphic occurence and age of the type locality . uncertain, but here interpreted to probably be early Hemphillian. Previously thought to be significantly older, i.e. equivalent to the Quincy and Midway local faunas, or late Hemingfordian." |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | FLMNH |
| Taxonomic list comments:"as far as can be determined, no other vertebrate specimens were ever recovered from the type locality of M. westoni" (Hulbert 1993:358 county is given as Alachua by Simpson, Gilchrist by Hulbert | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 18525 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Marcot | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2023-10-11 12:25:03 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3132. | G. G. Simpson. 1930. Tertiary Land Mammals of Florida. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 59(3):1-64 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] |