Bass Point Waterway 1: Blancan, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cingulata - Pampatheriidae
Holmesina floridanus (Robertson 1976)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Arctodus pristinus Leidy 1854
Emslie 1995
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Megantereon gracilis (Cope 1880)
    = Smilodon gracilis Cope 1880
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Nannippus peninsulatus (Cope 1885)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Sarasota
Coordinates: 27.0° North, 82.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.1° North, 81.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Pliocene
Key time interval:Blancan
Age range of interval:4.70000 - 1.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Taxonomic list comments:not the same as Northport (see)
Metadata
Database number:19746
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:44
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
2621. G. S. Morgan and R. B. Ridgway. 1987. Late Pliocene (late Blancan) vertebrates from the St. Petersburg Times site, Pinellas County, Florida, with a brief review of Florida Blancan faunas. Papers in Florida Paleontology 1:1-22 [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]
1457 S. D. Emslie. 1995. The fossil record of Arctodus pristinus (Ursidae: Tremarctinae) in Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 37(15):501-514 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/R. Hulbert]