St. Petersburg Times Site: Blancan, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cingulata - Pampatheriidae
Holmesina floridanus (Robertson 1976)
Mammalia - Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptotherium cf. arizonae Gidley 1926
synonym of Glyptotherium texanum
Mammalia - Megalonychidae
Megalonyx leptostomus Cope 1893
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817
Mammalia - Carnivora - Procyonidae
cf. Procyon sp. Storr 1780
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Nannippus peninsulatus (Cope 1885)
(1 measurement)
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Cervidae
cf. Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
    = Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825
Alroy 2006
Reptilia - Testudines - Kinosternoidea
Kinosternon sp. von Spix 1824
Reptilia - Testudines - Emydidae
Terrapene cf. carolina (Linnaeus 1758)
Pseudemys platymarginata
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Geochelone sp. Fitzinger 1835
subgenus Caudochelys
Reptilia - Testudines - Chelydridae
Macroclemys cf. temmincki (Troost 1835)
recombined as Macrochelys temminckii
Reptilia - Colubridae
Nerodia cf. taxispilota Holbrook 1842
Reptilia - Pelecaniformes - Threskiornithidae
Eudocimus sp. Wagler 1832
Reptilia - Anseriformes - Anatidae
Anas sp. Linnaeus 1758
three forms
Reptilia - Gruiformes - Rallidae
Fulica sp. Linnaeus 1758
Porphyrula sp. Linnaeus 1758
synonym of Porphyrio
Rallus sp. Linnaeus 1758
two forms
Reptilia - Podicipediformes - Podicipedidae
Podilymbus sp. Lesson 1831
Reptilia
Alligator cf. mississippiensis (Daudin 1801)
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela
Siren cf. lacertina Linnaeus 1766
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Ranidae
Rana sp. Linnaeus 1758
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843
Actinopteri - Siluriformes - Ictaluridae
Ictalurus sp. Rafinesque 1820
Gastropoda - Viviparidae
Viviparus georgianus
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Pinellas
Coordinates: 27.8° North, 82.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.9° North, 82.1° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:14 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Late/Upper Tertiary *Epoch:Late/Upper Pliocene
*Local age/stage:Late/Upper Blancan
Key time interval:Blancan
Age range of interval:4.70000 - 1.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tamiami Member:Pinecrest Beds
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: from a single "0.5 to 1.0 m thick layer"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:black sandy mudstone
Lithology description: "black sandy organic sediment"
Environment:mire/swamp
Geology comments: "quiet water depositional setting... pond, swamp, or marsh"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Articulated whole bodies:none
Associated major elements:none
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:many
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:salvage,selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:19764
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-12-15 16:58:18
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:

18120 J. Alroy. 2006. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]