PBDB Collection

Mauvilla: Hemphillian, Alabama

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae

	Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922	Hulbert and Whitmore 2006	1 specimen
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

	Borophaginae indet. Simpson 1945		2 specimens
	"very large"
	= Epicyon cf. haydeni Leidy 1858	Hulbert and Whitmore 2006
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

	Cormohipparion emsliei Hulbert 1988		12 specimens
	= Hippotherium emsliei Hulbert 1988	Alroy 2002
	original and current combination Cormohipparion emsliei
	may include "Nannippus cf. lenticularis" of Tedford and Hunter 1984, which is omitted by Hulbert and Whitmore and also could be Neohipparion eurystyle

	Neohipparion eurystyle (Cope 1893)		9 specimens
	probably "N. phosphorum" of Tedford and Hunter 1984

	Nannippus aztecus Mooser 1968	Hulbert and Whitmore 2006	4 specimens

	Protohippus gidleyi Hulbert 1988		12 specimens
	described by MacFadden and Dobie 1998:
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae

	Teleoceras sp. Hatcher 1894		1 specimen
	T. fossiger or T. hicksi

	Aphelops sp. Owen 1845		2 specimens
	= Aphelops mutilus Matthew 1924	Hulbert and Whitmore 2006
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae

	Tapirus sp. Brisson 1762		1 specimen
	= Tapiridae indet. Gray 1821	Alroy 2007
	original and current combination Taperidae
	tapirid astragalus whose "generic reference" is based on the fauna's age: Hulbert and Whitmore 2006
Mammalia - Cetacea - Platanistidae

	Pomatodelphis inaequalis Allen 1921	Hulbert and Whitmore 2006	1 specimen
Mammalia - Tayassuidae

	Prosthennops sp. Matthew and Gidley 1904		11 specimens
	probably tayassuid of Whitmore in Isphording and Flowers 1983 (3 measurements)
	= Prosthennops cf. serus Cope 1877	Hulbert and Whitmore 2006
Mammalia - Camelidae

	Camelidae indet. Gray 1821	Tedford and Hunter 1984	9 specimens
	= Pleiolama cf. vera Matthew 1909	Hulbert and Whitmore 2006
Mammalia - Protoceratidae

	Synthetoceras sp. Stirton 1932		30 specimens
	said to be new: probably S. cf. tricornatus of Tedford and Hunter 1984, Patton and Taylor 1971 (14 measurements)
	= Synthetoceras davisorum n. sp. Hulbert and Whitmore 2006	Hulbert and Whitmore 2006
Mammalia - Gelocidae

	cf. Pseudoceras sp. Frick 1937	Hulbert and Whitmore 2006	1 specimen
	= Pseudoceratinae indet. Frick 1937	Webb 2008
Mammalia - Palaeomerycidae

	Cervidae indet. Gray 1821		1 specimen
	= Ruminantia indet. Scopoli 1777	Tedford and Hunter 1984
	= Pediomeryx sp. Stirton 1936	Hulbert and Whitmore 2006
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae

	Castoridae indet. Gray 1821	Isphording and Flowers 1983
	identification is by Whitmore
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	Alabama	County:	Mobile
Coordinates:	30.7° North, 88.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	30.9° North, 86.5° West
Basis of coordinate:	based on political unit

Time

Period:	Neogene
10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 6
*Period:	Tertiary	*Epoch:	Miocene
*Local age/stage:	Early/Lower Hemphillian
Key time interval:	Hemphillian
Age range of interval:	9.40000 - 4.70000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields

Stratigraphy

Stratigraphy comments: said to be early Hemphillian

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	not reported
Environment:	marginal marine indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:

body

Collection methods and comments

Reason for describing collection:	general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:see MacFadden and Dobie 1998 for stratigraphic and geographic details same as the Citronelle fauna of Tedford and Hunter 1984 and other references, which was thought to be from the Citronelle Fm. in this county "14 taxa of mammals" including a dolphin, so up to four terrestrial species may have been omitted; most of these can be inferred from the earlier lists

Metadata

Also known as:	Ecor Rouge Sand; Chickasabogue Creek; Chickasaw Creek; Citronelle
Database number:	18559
Authorizer:	J. Alroy, M. Uhen	Enterer:	J. Alroy, M. Uhen
Modifier:	J. Alroy	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	1998-09-21 00:00:00	Last modified:	2008-06-29 19:45:01
Access level:	the public	Released:	1998-09-21 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

1963.

R. C. Hulbert, Jr. and F. C. Whitmore, Jr. 1997. Early Hemphillian mammals from the Mauvilla local fauna, Alabama. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17(3):54A [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

6294		J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
19636		J. Alroy. 2007. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates and so forth. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
23650		R. C. Hulbert and F. C. Whitmore. 2006. Late Miocene mammals from the Mauvilla Local Fauna, Alabama. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 46(1):1-28 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Alroy]
1997		W. C. Isphording and G. C. Flowers. 1983. Tulane St Geo Paleo 17(3) [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]
36064		S. D. Webb. 2008. Revision of the extinct Pseudoceratinae (Artiodactyla: Ruminantia: Gelocidae). Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 48(2):17-58 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]