Nichols Mine Stream Matrix Horizon: Tortonian - Zanclean, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Diplotherium allisoni
Morgan 1994
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Calippus cerasinus (Hulbert 1988)
Calippus elachistus (Hulbert 1988)
Neohipparion trampasense (Edwards 1982)
Pseudhipparion skinneri Webb and Hulbert 1986
Cormohipparion ingenuum (Leidy 1885)
    = Hippotherium ingenuum Leidy 1885
Alroy 2002
recombined as Cormohipparion ingenuum
Cormohipparion plicatile (Leidy 1887)
    = Hippotherium plicatile Leidy 1887
Alroy 2002
recombined as Cormohipparion plicatile
Nannippus westoni (Simpson 1930)
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Hypolagus cf. tedfordi White 1988
White 1988
"Mobil Mine, Lower Bone Valley, Hillsborough County"
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:11.63000 - 3.60000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Hawthorn Formation:Peace River Member:Bone Valley
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:Mobil Mine presumably really is the same as Nichols Mine as it does not appear on the map of Morgan 1994equids onlysee Bradley for earlier, late Barstovian horizonP. supremus is present in the Grey Zone: Hulbert 1988aC. emsliei is presened in an unidentified horizon: Hulbert 1988bmay include type of Rhynchotherium simpsoni Olsen 1957a from "Bone Valley formation, pit of the Phosphate Mining Company, Nichols"; and Epicyon haydeni Wang et al. 1999 from "Nichols Mine"
Metadata
Also known as:Mobil Mine
Database number:18568
Authorizer:J. Alroy, M. Uhen Enterer:J. Alroy, N. Pyenson
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-09-27 00:00:00 Last modified:2022-04-28 04:45:44
Access level:the public Released:1993-09-27 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
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]
3632 J. A. White. 1988. The Archaeolaginae (Mammalia, Lagomorpha) of North America, Excluding Archaeolagus and Panolax. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 7(4):425-450 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]