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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 ~23.03—5.33 Mya, calculates to a period of approximately 17.7 million years
Faunal stage: Harrisonian

Sites

S1BA site aka Live Oak site. Time period: ~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 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

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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