Gadsden County, Florida paleontological sites
The Gadsden County paleontological sites are assemblages of Early Miocene invertebrates and vertebrates occurring in Gadsden County, Florida, United States.
Age
Era: NeogenePeriod: Early Miocene
Faunal stage: Hemingfordian ~20.6—16.3 Mya, calculates to a period of approximately
Geologic formation: Torreya Formation
Sites
Gadsden County paleontological sites are represented by the following:La Camelia Site. Time period: 17.7 Mya.
Midway Site. Time period: ~18.9—18.8 Mya.
Milwhite Gunn Farm Site. Time period: ~17.0 Mya.
Quincy Site. Time period: ~17.0 Mya.
Coordinates:
Genus and species identified
La Camelia site = LCS. Midway site. = MIS. Milwhite Gunn Farfm Site. Marks River site = MGFD. Quincy site = QUI.Reptiles and amphibians
- Batrachosauroides B. dissimulans MGFD
- Colubrinae MGFD
- Natricinae MGFD
- Scincidae MGFD
- Cnemidophorus.MGFD.
- Heloderma LCS
- Leiocephalus MGFD
Mammals
Carnivores
- Amphicyon pontoni MIS
- Borophaginae MIS
- Procyon MIS
Herbivores
- Acritohippus isonesus LCS
- Anchitherium clarencei MIS
- Aphelops LCS, MIS, MGFD
- Archaeohippus blackbergi
- Blastomeryx MIS
- Bouromeryx americanus LCS
- Harrymys magnus MIS
- Lantanotherium MGFD
- Copemys MGFD
- Metaxytherium crataegense LCS, MGFD
- Merychippus gunteri LCS, MGFD, QUI
- Merychippus primus LCS, MGFD
- Mylagaulus MIS, MGFD
- Nanosiren MIS
- Merycoidodontidae MIS
- Perognathus minutus MGFD
- Proheteromys floridanus MIS, MGFD
- Prosynthetoceras texanus MIS
- Prosthennops xiphodonticus. LCS
- Rakomeryx LCS