Merritt Island: Irvingtonian - Rancholabrean, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Erethizontidae
Erethizon kleini Frazier 1981
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Felis amnicola Gillette 1976
Kurten and Anderson 1980
    = Leopardus amnicola Gillette 1976
Alroy 2002
synonym of Leopardus wiedii
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis dirus Leidy 1858
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]