Where: Polk County, Florida (27.7° N, 81.9° W: paleocoordinates 27.9° N, 80.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Bone Valley Member (Peace River Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• age from Morgan 1994; lower beds
•Previously Barstovian, but Missimer (1999) suggested that the Peace River Formation in Florida was likely deposited between 11-4.3Ma. The lower sequence is Tortonian, deposited between 11-8.5Ma, and the upper sequence is Zanclean and deposited between 5.2-4.3Ma
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: P. Brodkorb. 1955. The avifauna of the Bone Valley Formation. Florida Geological Survey Report of Investigations 14:1-57 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 122350: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 22.12.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
Larus elmori gull | |
"Palostralegus sulcatus n. gen. n. sp." = Haematopus palliatus
"Palostralegus sulcatus n. gen. n. sp." = Haematopus palliatus Temminick 1820 American oystercatcher | |
"Gavia concinna" = Gavia concinna, "Gavia palaeodytes n. sp." = Gavia concinna
"Gavia concinna" = Gavia concinna Wetmore 1940 loon
"Gavia palaeodytes n. sp." = Gavia concinna Wetmore 1940 loon | |
Phalacrocorax auritus Lesson 1831 double-crested cormorant
Phalacrocorax wetmorei Brodkorb 1955 cormorant | |
"Diomedea anglica" = Phoebastria anglica
"Diomedea anglica" = Phoebastria anglica Lydekker 1891 albatross |