Suwannee County, Florida paleontological sites

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

Age

Era: Neogene<br/> Period: Early Miocene<br/> Faunal stage: Arikareean (30.8—20.6 Ma.), calculates to a period of approximately .

Sites

S1BA site aka Live Oak site. AEO: ~21.8—21.7 Mya., approximately <br/> Coordinates:

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 (catlike 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.