Ocala, southeast of: Priabonian, Florida
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Basilosauridae
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Zygorhiza sp.
True 1908
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Morgan 1978 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
= Basilosauridae indet.
Cope 1867
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Uhen 2013 | |||||||||
too large for Zygorhiza | ||||||||||
informal zeuglodont sp.
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Sellards 1915 | |||||||||
= Basilosaurus cetoides
Owen 1839
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Cooke 1915 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Florida | County: | Marion |
Coordinates: | 29.2° North, 82.1° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 29.3° North, 74.5° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
Stage: | Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
*Period: | Middle Tertiary - Middle Tertiary | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Eocen - Late/Upper Eocene |
Key time interval: | Priabonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 38.00000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Ocala |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (in situ) |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 32916 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2003-07-18 13:52:31 | Last modified: | 2009-02-25 16:19:08 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-07-18 13:52:31 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
15585. | C. W. Cooke. 1915. The Age of the Ocala Limestone. US Geological Survey Professional Paper 95(I):107-117 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
8825 | G. S. Morgan. 1978. The fossil whales of Florida. The Plaster Jacket 29:1-20 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
15584 | E. H. Sellards. 1915. The Pebble Phosphates of Florida. Florida State Geological Survey Annual Report 7:25-116 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
42488 | M. D. Uhen. 2013. A review of North American Basilosauridae. Alabama Museum of Natural History Bulletin 31(2):1-45 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |