Ocala, southeast of: Priabonian, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Zygorhiza sp. True 1908
Morgan 1978 1 specimen
    = Basilosauridae indet. Cope 1867
Uhen 2013
too large for Zygorhiza
informal zeuglodont sp.
Sellards 1915
    = Basilosaurus cetoides Owen 1839
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]