Holder: Late/Upper Miocene, Florida
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Bystra nana n. gen., n. sp.
Hay 1916
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| recombined as Floridemys nana | ||||||||||
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Florida | County: | Citrus |
| Coordinates: | 29.0° North, 82.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 29.1° North, 80.8° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 11.63000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Alachua | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "Pliocene (or possibly Miocene)" (meaning late Miocene and possibly middle Miocene) |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | phosphorite |
| Lithology description: "from a hard-rock phosphate mine" | |
| 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: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | USNM |
| Collection method comments: originally "in the collection of Dr. Henry G. Bystra of Brooksville, Florida" | |
| Taxonomic list comments:specimen originally described by Hay 1916 | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 99792 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-11-21 17:55:33 | Last modified: | 2010-11-21 00:55:33 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-11-21 17:55:33 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 34299. | W. Auffenberg. 1963. Fossil testudinine turtles of Florida: genera. Geochelone and Floridemys. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 7(2):53-97 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |