Pool Branch: Irvingtonian, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut americanum (Kerr 1792)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Cuvieronius tropicus (Cope 1884)
Morgan and Hulbert 1995
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Arvicolinae indet. (Gray 1821)
Ondatra sp. Link 1795
    = Ondatra annectens Brown 1908
Morgan and White 1995
replaces ID of McDonald 1985
Mammalia - Cervidae
Odocoileus virginianus (Zimmermann 1780)
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Platygonus compressus Leconte 1848
    = Platygonus vetus Leidy 1882
Morgan and Hulbert 1995
Mylohyus sp. Cope 1869
    = Mylohyus fossilis Leidy 1860
Morgan and Hulbert 1995
Mammalia - Camelidae
Hemiauchenia macrocephala (Cope 1893)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus leidyi Hay 1913
Hulbert 1995
nomen vanum belonging to Equus
presumably "E. fraternus"; E. (Hemionus) is also present according to Hulbert
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tapirus veroensis Sellards 1918
    = Tapirus haysii Leidy 1860
Hulbert 1995
recombined as Tapirus (Helicotapirus) haysii
Mammalia - Cingulata - Pampatheriidae
Holmesina septentrionalis (Leidy 1889)
    = Holmesina floridanus Robertson 1976
Morgan and Hulbert 1995
replaces ID of McDonald 1985; "Brachyostracon sp."
Mammalia - Nothrotheriidae
Nothrotheriops shastensis (Sinclair 1905)
    = Nothrotheriops texanus Hay 1916
McDonald 1995
original and current combination Nothrotherium texanum
replaces ID of McDonald 1985; "Megalonyx wheatleyi"
Mammalia - Megatheriidae
Eremotherium sp. Spillmann 1948
Morgan and Hulbert 1995
reported as from "Pool Creek" in Polk County by De Iulis and Cartelle 1999
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Polk
Coordinates: 27.9° North, 81.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.9° North, 81.6° 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
Stratigraphy comments: said to be early Irvingtonian
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Metadata
Database number:20478
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:
3567. S. D. Webb. 1974. Chronology of Florida Pleistocene mammals. In S. D. Webb (ed.), Pleistocene Mammals of Florida 5-31 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

1955 R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1995. Equus from Leisey Shell Pit 1A and other Irvingtonian localities from Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 37(17):553-602 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
1954 R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1995. The giant tapir, Tapirus haysii, from Leisey Shell Pit 1A and other Florida Irvingtonian Localities. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 37(16):515-551 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
2499 H. G. McDonald. 1995. Gravigrade xenarthrans from the early Pleistocene Leisey Shell Pit 1A, Hillsborough County, Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 37(11) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
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]
2624 G. S. Morgan and J. A. White. 1995. Small mammals (Insectivora, Lagomorpha, and Rodentia) from the early Pleistocene (early Irvingtonian) Leisey Shell Pit Local Fauna, Hillsborough County, Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 37(13) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]