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

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

## Sites

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S1BA site aka Live Oak site. AEO: ~21.8—21.7 Mya., approximately 0.1 million years[1]
Coordinates: 30°18′N 83°00′W﻿ / ﻿30.3°N 83.0°W﻿ / 30.3; -83.0

## Specimens

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### Mammals

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* 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

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1. ^ Alroy, John AEO estimate.

* 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.