Martin-Anthony Roadcut: Harrisonian, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Camelidae
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821
"small"
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
cf. Menoceras cooki (Peterson 1906)
    = Menoceras arikarense Barbour 1906
Albright 1998
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Temnocyoninae indet. Hunt 1998
    = Mammacyon sp. Loomis 1936
Hunt 1998
listed as "Temnocyon" in a table by Albright 1998b, apparently by mistake
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Marion
Coordinates: 29.3° North, 82.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.6° North, 77.5° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4-5
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Miocene
Key time interval:Harrisonian
Age range of interval:23.10000 - 18.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Penney Farms
Local section:MrtnA Local bed:2
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: said by MacFadden to be from the Hawthorne Formation and "late Arikareean" = Harrisonian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "siliciclastic"
Lithology description: "clastic"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:FLMNH
Taxonomic list comments:above limestone that includes "Phenacocoelus luskensis" (= Merycoides harrisonensis) from Oreodont Site (see)
Metadata
Database number:18557
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1995-03-26 00:00:00 Last modified:2011-01-11 20:49:39
Access level:the public Released:1995-03-26 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

34735. B. J. MacFadden. 1980. An early Miocene land mammal (Oreodonta) from a marine limestone in northern Florida. Journal of Paleontology 54(1):93-101 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

936 L. B. Albright. 1998. The Arikareean Land Mammal Age in Texas and Florida: Southern extension of Great Plains faunas and Gulf Coastal Plain. Geological Society of America Special Paper 325:167-183 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
1977 R. M. Hunt, Jr. 1998. Amphicyonidae. 196-227 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
3383 R. H. Tedford and M. E. Hunter. 1984. Miocene marine-nonmarine correlations, Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains, North America. Palaeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 47:129-151 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]