Floridatragulus Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Camelidae |
Subfamily: | † Floridatragulinae |
Genus: | † Floridatragulus White 1940 |
Type species | |
†Floridatragulus dolichanthereus | |
Species | |
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Synonyms | |
Hypermekops |
Floridatragulus is an extinct genus of camelids. It lived in North America during the Early to Middle Miocene, about 20.6—15.9 mya, existing for approximately 5 million years. [1]
The Thomas Farm site is an Early Miocene, Hemingfordian assemblage of vertebrate fossils located in Gilchrist County, northern Florida.
The Torreya Formation is a Miocene geologic formation with an outcrop in North Florida. It is within the Hawthorn Group.
The Leon County paleontological sites are assemblages of Early Miocene invertebrates and vertebrates of Leon County, Florida, United States.
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.