Also known as UF AL010
Where: Alachua County, Florida (29.7° N, 82.6° W: paleocoordinates 29.7° N, 82.6° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
When: Rancholabrean mammal zone, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Brodkorb (1953) noted bird fossils came from both stratum 3 (yellow-brown sand) and stratum 2 (blue or yellow clay with lenses of fresh water shells).
Environment/lithology: spring; unlithified siliciclastic sediments
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: original calcite, original phosphate
Collected in the 1950s; reposited in the FLMNH
Primary reference: W. Auffenberg. 1963. The fossil snakes of Florida. Tulane Studies in Zoology 10(3):131-216 [J. Head/J. Head/R. Hulbert]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 154922: authorized by Jonathan Bloch, entered by Richard Hulbert on 19.03.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Natrix sipedon" = Nerodia sipedon, Natrix cyclopion, Natrix cf. erythrogaster, Drymarchon corais, Lampropeltis getulus, Elaphe guttata, Masticophis flagellum, Thamnophis sirtalis
"Natrix sipedon" = Nerodia sipedon Linnaeus 1758 northern water snake
Natrix cyclopion water snake
Natrix cf. erythrogaster water snake
Drymarchon corais Boie 1827 cribo
Lampropeltis getulus Linnaeus 1766 kingsnake
Elaphe guttata Linnaeus 1766 corn snake
Masticophis flagellum whip snake
Thamnophis sirtalis Linnaeus garter snake | |
Agkistrodon piscivorous Lacépède cottonmouth | |
Aves | |
"Porphyrula martinica" = Porphyrio martinica1, Fulica americana1, Gallinula chloropus1, "Porzana auffenbergi n. sp." = Rallus limicola2
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"Guara alba" = Eudocimus albus1
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Amphibia | |
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