Hawthorn Group

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Hawthorn Group
Stratigraphic range: Miocene
Type Geological formation
Sub-units (See text)
Underlies Ocala Limestone
Thickness > 330 feet
Location
Region North Florida
Country  United States
Type section
Named for Hawthorne, Florida
Named by L.C. Johnson, 1887
Location of the Hawthorn Group within Florida (in red).

The Hawthorn Group is a Late Oligocene to Pliocene grouping of several geologic formations and members in North Florida, United States.

The Hawthorn Group was originally called the Waldo Formation in 1887 by L. C. Johnson of the USGS and became Hawthorne beds for sediments being quarried and ground up as fertilizer near Hawthorne, Florida.[1]

Age

Period: Neogene
Epoch: Miocene
Faunal stage: Chattian through early Blancan ~28.4 to ~2.588 mya, calculates to a period of 25.512 million years

Location

The Hawthorn Group extends from Suwannee County in the north and southward to Hernando County. It encompasses in part the counties of Gilchrist, Levy, Dixie, Citrus, Sumter, Alachua and Marion County. The Hawthorn is also present below undifferentiated sediments (TQu) as well as the Tamiami Formation from Polk County south through Highlands, Glades, Hendry, Dade, Collier, and Monroe County at depths ranging from mean sea level near Polk to below 600 meters in Monroe Co.[2] The Hawthorn overlies Ocala Limestone[3]

Sub-units

Paleofauna

Reptiles

  • Apalone ferox (Florida Softshell Turtle)
  • Pseudemys caelata (Pond Turtle)
  • Terrapene (Box Turtle)
  • Deirochelys (Chicken Turtle)
  • Geochelone (Tortoise)
  • Alligator mississippiensis (American Alligator)
  • Gavialosuchus americanus or Thecachampsa antiqua (American Crocodile)
  • Typhlops (Blind snake)
  • Xenodontinae (Mud Snake)
  • Heterodon (Hognose Snake)
  • Elaphe (Rat Snake)
  • Lampropeltis getulus (Kingsnake)
  • Nerodia (Water snake)
  • Thamnophis (Garter Snake)
  • Crotalinae (Lancehead, Rattlesnake)
  • Sistrurus (Rattlesnake)

Birds

Mammals

  • Metaxytherium floridanum (Sea Cow)
  • Gomphotherium (Elephant)
  • Tapirus simpsoni (Tapir)
  • Teleoceras proterum (Rhinoceros)
  • Aphelops malacorhinus (Rhinoceros)
  • Pseudhipparion skinneri (Horse)
  • Hipparion tehonense (Horse)
  • Neohipparion trampasense (Horse)
  • Nannippus westoni (Horse)
  • Hippotherium ingenuum and H. plicatile (Horse)
  • Calippus cerasinus and C. elachistus (Horse)
  • Protohippus gidleyi (Horse)
  • Microchiroptera (Microbat)
  • Leptarctus (Mustilidae)
  • Hoplictis (Mustildae)
  • Plionictis (Mustilidae)
  • Sthenictis lacota (Mustilidae)
  • Arctonasua floridana (Raccoon)
  • Paranasua biradica
  • Leptocyon
  • Epicyon haydeni and E. saevus (Proto-dog)
  • Nimravides galiani (False Saber-tooth cat)
  • Barbourofelis loveorum (False Saber-tooth cat)
  • Antilocaprinae (Antilope)
  • Pseudoceras (Early horse-type ungulate)
  • Yumaceras hamiltoni (Camel-like)
  • Cetacea (Whale)
  • Aepycamelus major (Camel)
  • Procamelus grandis (Camel)
  • Hemiauchenia minima (Camel)
  • Talpidae (Mole)
  • Soricidae (Shrew)
  • Archaeolaginae (Rabbit)
  • Sciuridae (Squirrel)
  • Eucastor planus (Beaver)
  • Abelmoschomys simpsoni (Vole)
  • Mylagaulus elassos (Horned gopher)

References

  1. Geology of Florida: Miocene to Halocene. University of Florida Geology
  2. USGS Florida Geology
  3. Glen L. Faulkner, Geological Survey (U.S.), United States. Army. Corps of Engineers, Geohydrology of the Cross-Florida Barge Canal area, Tallahassee, 1973.
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