HAILE 1A (Pleistocene of the United States)

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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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

• fresh water shells reported to be present but not identified; mammals rare and possibly never published
Reptilia
 Squamata - Colubridae
"Natrix sipedon" = Nerodia sipedon Linnaeus 1758 northern water snake
Natrix cyclopion water snake
Drymarchon corais Boie 1827 cribo
Lampropeltis getulus Linnaeus 1766 kingsnake
Elaphe guttata Linnaeus 1766 corn snake
Thamnophis sirtalis Linnaeus garter snake
 Squamata - Crotalidae
Agkistrodon piscivorous Lacépède cottonmouth
Aves
 Gruiformes - Rallidae
"Porphyrula martinica" = Porphyrio martinica1, Fulica americana1, Gallinula chloropus1, "Porzana auffenbergi n. sp." = Rallus limicola2
"Porphyrula martinica" = Porphyrio martinica1 Linnaeus 1766 purple gallinule
Fulica americana1 Gmelin 1789 American coot
Gallinula chloropus1 Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian moorhen
"Porzana auffenbergi n. sp." = Rallus limicola2 Vieillot 1819 Virginia rail
 Podicipediformes - Podicipedidae
Podilymbus podiceps1 Linnaeus 1758 pied-billed grebe
 Passeriformes - Passerellidae
Ammodramus savannarum1 Gmelin 1789 grasshopper sparrow
 Anseriformes - Anatidae
Anas platyrhynchos1 Linnaeus 1758 mallard
 Pelecaniformes - Threskiornithidae
"Guara alba" = Eudocimus albus1
"Guara alba" = Eudocimus albus1 Linnaeus 1758 White ibis
Amphibia
 Salientia - Ranidae
 Caudata - Urodela
Siren lacertina3 Linnaeus 1766 greater siren