Merritt Island: Irvingtonian - Rancholabrean, Florida
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Erethizontidae
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Erethizon kleini
Frazier 1981
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Felis amnicola
Gillette 1976
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Kurten and Anderson 1980 | ||||||
= Leopardus amnicola
Gillette 1976
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Alroy 2002 | ||||||
synonym of Leopardus wiedii | |||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canis dirus
Leidy 1858
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Kurten 1984 | ||||||
recombined as Aenocyon dirus | |||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Florida | County: | Brevard |
Coordinates: | 28.1° North, 80.5° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 28.1° North, 80.3° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | *Local age/stage: | Late/Upper Irvingtonian - Rancholabrean |
Key time interval: | Irvingtonian - Rancholabrean | ||
Age range of interval: | 1.80000 - 0.01200 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: said to be late Irvingtonian to Rancholabrean |
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some genera |
Taxonomic list comments:said to be "later Irvingtonian or Rancholabrean" by Frazier and Rancholabrean by Kurten and Anderson, but "probable early Irvingtonian" by Morgan and White 1995 |
Metadata
Database number: | 20419 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:44 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
1546. | M. K. Frazier. 1981. A revision of the fossil Erethizontidae of North America. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 27(1) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |
Secondary references:
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
2193 | B. Kurten. 1984. Geographic Differentiation in the Rancholabrean Dire Wolf (Canis dints Leidy) in North America. In H. H. Genoways and M. R. Dawson (eds.), Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 8:218-227 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
6221 | B. Kurten and E. Anderson. 1980. Pleistocene mammals of North America 1-442 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |