Leisey Shell Pit 1C: late Early Hemphillian, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Cormohipparion ingenuum (Leidy 1885)
    = Hippotherium ingenuum Leidy 1885
Alroy 2002
recombined as Cormohipparion ingenuum
Neohipparion eurystyle (Cope 1893)
Nannippus minor (Sellards 1916)
    = Nannippus aztecus Mooser 1968
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
cf. Aphelops sp. Owen 1845
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Hillsborough
Coordinates: 27.7° North, 82.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.9° North, 80.8° 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 Early Hemphillian
Age range of interval:9.40000 - 4.70000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Bone Valley
Local section:Leisy Local bed:2
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: "late early Hemphillian"
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:list mostly repeated by Morgan and Hulbert 1995 as "Leisey Shell Pit (Upper Bone Valley)"
Metadata
Database number:18552
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-09-27 00:00:00 Last modified:2005-09-28 17:03:11
Access level:the public Released:1993-09-27 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

1960. R. C. Hulbert, Jr. and G. S. Morgan. 1989. Stratigraphy, paleoecology, and vertebrate fauna of the Leisey Shell Pit Local Fauna, early Pleistocene (Irvingtonian) of southwestern Florida. Papers in Florida Paleontology 2:1-19 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]