Leisey Shell Pit 1B: Irvingtonian, Florida
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canis armbrusteri
Gidley 1913
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Arctodus pristinus
Leidy 1854
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus leidyi
Hay 1913
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| nomen vanum belonging to Equus | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Tapiridae
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Tapirus haysii
Leidy 1860
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| recombined as Tapirus (Helicotapirus) haysii | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Odocoileus virginianus
(Zimmermann 1780)
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Palaeolama sp.
Gervais 1869
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus sp.
Brookes 1828
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Florida | County: | Hillsborough |
| Coordinates: | 27.7° North, 82.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 27.7° North, 82.3° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | *Local age/stage: | Early/Lower Irvingtonian |
| Key time interval: | Irvingtonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 1.40000 - 0.21000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | unlithified sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | unlithified siltstone |
| Lithology description: "unconsolidated, poorly sorted... fine-grained sand, silt, and dark brown mud" [description based on Leisey Shell Pit 1A] | |
| Environment: | estuary/bay |
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:"Holmesina cf. floridanus" is omitted by Downing and White 1995 | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 20401 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2005-09-28 17:03:31 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 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] |