Cummer Lumber Company Phosphate Mine Eocene: Priabonian, Florida
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Basilosauridae
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Basilosaurus brachyspondylus
(Müller 1849)
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Sellards 1915 | 1 specimen | |||||
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= Basilosaurus sp.
Harlan 1834
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Uhen 2013 | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Florida | County: | Alachua |
| Coordinates: | 29.7° North, 82.6° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 29.8° North, 74.9° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
| Key time interval: | Priabonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:"as far as can be determined, no other vertebrate specimens were ever recovered from the type locality of M. westoni" (Hulbert 1993:358county is given as Alachua by Simpson, Gilchrist by Hulbert | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 57123 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-12-02 10:54:27 | Last modified: | 2019-12-02 18:06:42 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-12-02 10:54:27 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 15425. | E. H. Sellards. 1916. Fossil vertebrates from Florida: A new Miocene fauna; new Pliocene species; the Pleistocene fauna. Florida State Geological Survey, Annual Report 8:79-119 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 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] |