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 Faunal stage: Arikareean (30.8—20.6 Ma.), calculates to a period of approximately .
Sites S1BA site Live Oak site. AEO: ~21.8—21.7 Mya., approximately Alroy, John AEO estimate. 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.