Four Corners Mine, Miocene: Late/Upper Hemphillian, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Borophagus hilli (Johnston 1939)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Cormohipparion plicatile (Leidy 1887)
Hulbert 1988
    = Hippotherium plicatile Leidy 1887
Alroy 2002
recombined as Cormohipparion plicatile
Cormohipparion emsliei Hulbert 1988
Hulbert 1988
    = Hippotherium emsliei Hulbert 1988
Alroy 2002
original and current combination Cormohipparion emsliei
Cormohipparion ingenuum (Leidy 1885)
Hulbert 1988
    = Hippotherium ingenuum Leidy 1885
Alroy 2002
recombined as Cormohipparion ingenuum
Hipparion cf. tehonense (Merriam 1916)
Hulbert 1988
recombined as Hipparion gratum tehonense
Nannippus westoni (Simpson 1930)
Hulbert 1993
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Polk
Coordinates: 27.9° North, 81.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:28.1° North, 80.1° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Neogene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Miocene
Key time interval:Late/Upper Hemphillian
Age range of interval:9.40000 - 4.70000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:owned by IMC-Agrico Co.
Metadata
Database number:18533
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:B. Allen Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-09-27 00:00:00 Last modified:2023-07-29 09:48:54
Access level:the public Released:1993-09-27 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

3558. X. Wang, R. H. Tedford, and B. E. Taylor. 1999. Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 243:1-392 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
739 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]
1951 R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1988. Cormohipparion and Hipparion (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Equidae) from the Late Neogene of Florida. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 33(5):229-338 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
1953 R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1993. Late Miocene Nannippus (Mammalia: Perissodactyla) from Florida, with a description of the smallest Hipparionine horse. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 13(3):350-366 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]