Suwannee County, Florida paleontological sites

Suwannee County.

Florida during the Miocene

The Suwannee County, Florida paleontological sites are assemblages of Early Miocene invertebrates and vertebrates occurring in Suwannee County, Florida.

Age

Era: Neogene
Period: Early Miocene
Faunal stage: Arikareean (30.8—20.6 Ma.), calculates to a period of approximately 1.2 million years.

Sites

S1BA site aka Live Oak site. AEO: ~21.8—21.7 Mya., approximately 0.1 million years
Coordinates: 30.3°N 83.0°W / 30.3; -83.0

Specimens

Mammals

• Anchitheriinae (horse)
• Arikarictis chapini (mustelid)
• Daphoenodon (bear-dog)
• Leptocyon (canine)
• Eomyidae (gopher)
• Geomyoidea (pocket gopher)
• Herpetotherium (pygmy opossum)
• Harrymys magnus
• Mammacyon obtusidens (bear-dog)
• Megalictis frazieri (mustelid)
• Nothokemas waldropi (camel)
• Palaeogale minuta (cat-like carnivore)
• Phlaocyon leucosteus
• Protosciurus (tree squirrel)
• Vespertilionidae (bat)

References

• Paleobiology Database, Collection 17837, authorized by 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.
• Hayes, F. G., The Brooksville 2 local fauna (Arikareean, latest Oligocene) Hernando County, Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 43(1):1-47. 2000.