Kingsford Mine (Younger): Tortonian - Zanclean, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Dinohippus mexicanus (Lance 1950)
MacFadden 1986
original and current combination Pliohippus (Pliohippus) mexicanus
"IMC Kingsford Mine"
Cormohipparion emsliei Hulbert 1988
Hulbert 1988
    = Hippotherium emsliei Hulbert 1988
Alroy 2002
original and current combination Cormohipparion emsliei
Neohipparion eurystyle (Cope 1893)
Hulbert 1987
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tapirus polkensis (Olsen 1960)
Hulbert et al. 2009
Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Ninoziphius platyrostris Muizon 1983
Morgan 1994 1 specimen
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Catagonus brachydontus (Dalquest and Mooser 1980)
recombined as Protherohyus brachydontus
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
Hexameryx simpsoni White 1941
Webb 1973
Actinopteri - Tetraodontiformes - Diodontidae
Diodon circumflexus n. sp. Leriche 1942
Leriche 1942
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Carcharocles megalodon (Agassiz 1835)
Pimiento et al. 2010
recombined as Otodus megalodon
Locality information based on reference's supporting information aided with FLMNH online database
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:Tortonian - Zanclean
Age range of interval:11.62000 - 3.60000 m.y. ago
Age estimate:10 to 4.9 Ma (other)
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Bone Valley
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:pebbly,phosphatic argillaceous,sandy sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
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:list separated out from Bradley fauna on a priori grounds: so sue me possibly relevant: Enhydritherium terraenovae Morgan 1994: "Kingsford Mine"
Metadata
Database number:18548
Authorizer:J. Alroy, C. Jaramillo, M. Uhen, J. Bloch Enterer:J. Alroy, R. Hulbert, C. Pimiento, M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-09-27 00:00:00 Last modified:2019-11-04 16:49:29
Access level:the public Released:1993-09-27 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

3774. D. B. Wright. 1989. Phylogenetic relationships of Catagonus wagneri: sister taxa from the Tertiary of North America. Advances in Neotropical Mammalogy 281-308 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
13595 R. W. Boessenecker, D. J. Eheret, D. J. Long, M. Churchill, E. Martin and S. J. Boessenecker. 2019. The Early Pliocene extinction of the mega-toothed shark Otodus megalodon: a view from the eastern North Pacific. PeerJ 7:e6088 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
50347 R. C. Hulbert, S. C. Wallace, W. W. Klippel and P. W. Parmalee. 2009. Cranial morphology and systematics of an extraordinary sample of the late Neogene dwarf tapir, Tapirus polkensis (Olsen). Journal of Paleontology 83(2):238-262 [J. Bloch/R. Hulbert]
38505% 23520R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1987. Late Neogene Neohipparion (Mammalia, Equidae) from the Gulf Coastal Plain of Florida and Texas. Journal of Paleontology 61(4):809-830 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Alroy]
1950 R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1988. A new Cormohipparion (Mammalia, Equidae) from the Pliocene (latest Hemphillian and Blancan) of Florida. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 7(4):451-468 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/R. Hulbert]
28099 M. Leriche. 1942. Contribution a l'etude des faunes ichthyologiques marines des terrains tertiaires de la plaine cotiere Atlantique et du centre des Etats-Unis. Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France (Nouvelle Serie) 45:1-111 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
17249 B. J. MacFadden. 1986. Late Hemphillian monodactyl horses (Mammalia, Equidae) from the Bone Valley Formation of Central Florida. Journal of Paleontology 60(2):466-475 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Alroy]
3851 B. J. MacFadden. 1986. Fossil horses from "Eohippus" (Hyracotherium) to Equus; scaling, Cope's law, and the evolution of body size. Paleobiology 12(4):355-369 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers]
2613 G. S. Morgan. 1994. Miocene and Pliocene marine mammal faunas from the Bone Valley Formation of central Florida. Contributions in Marine Mammal Paleontology Honoring Frank C. Whitmore Jr., Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History 29:239-268 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
38040 C. Pimiento, D. J. Ehret, B. J. MacFadden and G. Hubbell. 2010. Ancient Nursery Area for the Extinct Giant Shark Megalodon from the Miocene of Panama. PloS One 5(5):1-9 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
85881 W. von Koenigswald, C. Widga, and U. Göhlich. 2023. New mammutids (Proboscidea) from the Clarendonian and Hemphillian of Oregon – a survey of Mio-Pliocene mammutids from North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Natural History, University of Oregon 30:1-63 [N. Famoso/N. Famoso]
3566 S. D. Webb. 1973. Pliocene Pronghorns of Florida. Journal of Mammalogy 54(1):203-221 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]