Lehigh Acres: Blancan, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Nannippus peninsulatus (Cope 1885)
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Platygonus bicalcaratus Cope 1893
nomen dubium belonging to Platygonus
Mammalia - Camelidae
Hemiauchenia ? blancoensis (Meade 1945)
Feranec 2003
Mammalia - Megatheriidae
Eremotherium sp. Spillmann 1948
see also De Iulis and Cartelle 1999
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
"Glossotherium" chapadmalense (Kraglievich 1925)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Lee
Coordinates: 26.5° North, 81.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.6° North, 81.2° 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:4.90000 - 1.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tamiami Member:Pinecrest Beds
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Taxonomic list comments:four other mammals are present
Metadata
Database number:19755
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1995-10-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:44
Access level:the public Released:1995-10-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2615. G. S. Morgan and R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1995. Overview of the geology and vertebrate biochronology of the Leisey Shell Pit Local Fauna, Hillsborough County, Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 37(1) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]

Secondary references:

9283 R. S. Feranec. 2003. Stable isotopes, hypsodonty, and the paleodiet of Hemiauchenia (Mammalia: Camelidae): a morphological specialization creating ecological generalization. Paleobiology 29(2):230-242 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]