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Alachua Formation
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| Alachua Formation | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Early-Late Miocene (Hemingfordian-Hemphillian) ~ | |
| Type | Formation |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Claystone, sandstone |
| Other | Phosphorite |
| Location | |
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| Region | Florida |
| Country | United States |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Alachua, Florida |
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The Alachua Formation is a Miocene geologic formation in Florida. The claystones, sandstones and phosphorites of the formation preserve many fossils of mammals, birds, reptiles and fish, among others megalodon.
Fossil content
The formation has provided the following fossils.[1]
Mammals
- Rodents
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- Carnivora
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- Amphicyon longiramus
- Borophagus orc
- B. pugnator
- Cynelos caroniavorus
- Enhydritherium terraenovae
- Epicyon haydeni
- E. saevus
- Eucyon davisi
- Euoplocyon spissidens
- Leptarctus ancipidens
- Metatomarctus canavus
- Oligobunis floridanus
- Osbornodon iamonensis
- Phoberocyon johnhenryi
- Zodiolestes freundi
- Borophagus sp.
- Phlaocyon sp.
- Sthenictis sp.
- Felidae indet.
- Mustelinae indet.
- Ground sloths
- Gomphotheres
- Artiodactyls
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- Aepycamelus major
- Diabolocornis simonsi
- Floridachoerus olseni
- Floridameryx floridanus
- Floridatragulus dolichanthereus
- Hemiauchenia minima
- Machaeromeryx gilchristensis
- Nothokemas floridanus
- Parablastomeryx floridanus
- Pediomeryx hemphillensis
- Prosynthetoceras texanus
- Synthetoceras australis
- S. cf. tricornatus
- Yumaceras hamiltoni
- Aepycamelus sp.
- Hemiauchenia sp.
- Merycoidodon sp.
- Antilocapridae indet.
- Camelidae indet.
- Ruminantia indet.
- Tayassuidae indet.
- Tayassuinae indet.
- Soricomorpha
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- Perissodactyls
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- Anchitherium clarencei
- Aphelops malacorhinus
- A. mutilus
- Archaeohippus blackbergi
- Calippus elachistus
- Calippus hondurensis
- Calippus maccartyi
- Cormohipparion emsliei
- C. ingenuum
- C. plicatile
- Floridaceras whitei
- Menoceras barbouri
- Nannippus aztecus
- N. morgani
- N. westoni
- Neohipparion trampasense
- Parahippus leonensis
- Protohippus gidleyi
- Pseudhipparion skinneri
- Tapirus webbi
- Teleoceras proterum
- Hipparion cf. tehonense
- cf. Astrohippus sp.
- Dinohippus sp.
- Sirenians
- Lipotyphla
- Theriiformes
Birds
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Reptiles
- Turtles
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- Crocodiles
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- Snakes
- Anilioides minuatus
- Boa constrictor
- Calamagras floridanus
- Ogmophis pauperrimus
- Paraoxybelis floridanus
- Pseudocemophora antiqua
- Pterygoboa sp.
- Lizards
Amphibians
- Anurans
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- Salamanders
Fish
- Sharks
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- Rays
- Others
See also
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References
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- ^ Alachua Formation at Fossilworks.org
Bibliography
- C. Pimiento. 2014. Carcharocles megalodon unpublished collections from Natural History Museums around the world
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hulbert, Richard C., Jr. (1988). "Calippus and Protohippus (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Equidae) from the Miocene (Barstovian-early Hemphillian) of the Gulf Coastal Plain" (PDF). Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences. 32 (3): 221–340.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Webb, S. David; MacFadden, Bruce J.; Baskin, Jon A. (May 1981). "Geology and paleontology of the Love Bone Bed from the Late Miocene of Florida". American Journal of Science. 281 (5): 513–544. Bibcode:1981AmJS..281..513W. doi:10.2475/ajs.281.5.513.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hirschfeld, Sue E.; Webb, S. David (1968). "Plio-Pleistocene Megalonychid Sloths of North America" (PDF). Bulletin of the Florida State Museum. 12 (5): 213–296.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Webb, S. David (August 1966). "A Relict Species of the Burrowing Rodent, Mylagaulus, from the Pliocene of Florida". Journal of Mammalogy. 47 (3): 401–412. doi:10.2307/1377681. JSTOR 1377681.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Auffenberg, Walter (1963). "Fossil testudinine turtles of Florida: genera Geochelone and Floridemys" (PDF). Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences. 7 (2): 53–97.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Pirkle, E. C. (December 1956). "The Hawthorne and Alachua Formations of Alachua County, Florida". Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences. 19 (4): 197–240. JSTOR 24315224.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.White, T. E. (1942). "The Lower Miocene mammal fauna of Florida". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 92 (1): 1–49.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Simpson, George Gaylord (1930). "Tertiary Land Mammals of Florida". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 59 (3): 1–64.
