Species of Miohippus gave rise to the first burst of diversity in the horse family. Until Miohippus, there were few side branches, but the descendants of Miohippus were numerous and distinct. During the Miocene, over a dozen genera existed. Today, only one genus of horses survives: Equus. Where &a
Species in this genus lived from about 32-25 million years ago.
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Modern American Alligator Crocodilians first appear in the fossil record 83.5 million
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fossil is the largest freshwater turtle species found from the Paleocene (66–56 million
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Cormohipparion ingenuum Quick Facts Common Name: Noble Hipparion Cormohipparion ingenuum was the first species of horse to be named from Florida. Given its long, narrow muzzle and relatively short-crowned teeth, Cormohipparion ingenuum most likely fed on a mix of browse and green, fresh gr
early Clarendonian (Cl2) to early Hemphillian (Hh2) land mammal ages About 11 to 6 million
Defining taxon: first appearance of 17 mammalian genera dispersing more or less simultaneously from Eurasia (Tedford et al., 2004); among those found in Florida are the bear-dog Amphicyon, the hemicyonine bear Phoberocyon, the mustelid Leptarctus, the rhino Floridaceras, and the dromomerycid Aletome
The Hemingfordian is divided into two subintervals: the He1 from 18.9 to 17.5 million
The Historical Archaeology program has had active research projects ongoing in St. Augustine, Florida, since 1973, and in Hispaniola since 1979. The sites and their collections provide a record of Spanish colonial settlement in the circum-Caribbean region, spanning the period between the arrival of
Spanish Pitcher Spanish Sword (cast) The collection consists of more than 2 million
When Charles Darwin journeyed to the Galapagos Islands in the 1830s, he collected some mysterious birds that later helped shape his theory of evolution by natural selection. Dubbed „Darwin’s finches,“ they became famous as an example of adaptive radiation, in which animals evolve from a common ances
Caribbean Island, Hispaniola, formed when two land masses collided more than 50 million
Between 2009 and 2016, the Panama Canal was expanded, providing an opportunity for researchers to excavate fossils at previously inaccessible. These fossils provide answers to questions about ancient ecosystems and climates, as well as the anatomy, behavior and physiology of ancient organisms. Bruc
(foreground) collect fossils from the Miocene-age Cucaracha Formation (about 17 million
Defining taxon: first appearance of Mammuthus south of 55° N latitude (Bell et al., 2004) Basis of name: Savage (1951) based the name on the Irvington District in Fremont, California, which is in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was the location of a Pleistocene vertebrate fauna that contained Mamm
The Irvingtonian is divided into three subintervals: the Ir1 from 1.6 to 1.0 million
