The Suwannee County, Florida paleontological sites are assemblages of Early Miocene invertebrates and vertebrates occurring in Suwannee County, Florida.
Age edit
Era: Neogene
Period: Early Miocene ~23.03—5.33 Mya, calculates to a period of approximately 17.7 million years
Faunal stage: Harrisonian
Sites edit
S1BA site aka Live Oak site. Time period: ~21.8—21.7 Mya., approximately 0.1 million years
Coordinates: 30°18′N 83°00′W / 30.3°N 83.0°W
Specimens edit
Mammals edit
- Anchitheriinae (Horse)
- Arikarictis chapini (Mustelid)
- Daphoenodon {Bear-dog)
- Leptocyon (Canine)
- Eomyidae (Gopher)
- Geomyoidea (Pocket gopher)
- Herpetotherium (Pygmy opposum)
- Harrymys magnus
- Mammacyon obtusidens (Bear-dog)
- Megalictis frazieri (Mustilid)
- Nothokemas waldropi (Camel)
- Palaeogale minuta (Cat-like carnivore)
- Phlaocyon leucosteus
- Protosciurus (Tree squirrel)
- Vespertilionidae (Bat)
References edit
John Alroy, Ph.D., National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Alroy, J., Conjunction among taxonomic distributions and the Miocene mammalian biochronology of the Great Plains. Paleobiology 18(3):326-343, 1992.
- Alroy, J., 2008. Speciation and extinction in the fossil record of North American mammals. Ecological Reviews, 2008.
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