Wightman Site (Holocene of the United States)

Also known as Sanibel Island

Where: Lee County, Florida (26.4° N, 82.1° W: paleocoordinates 26.4° N, 82.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• 1900-2300 y.a.

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: P. J. Adam and G. G. Garcia. 2003. New information on the natural history, distribution, and skull size of the extinct (?) West Indian monk seal, Monachus tropicalis. Marine Mammal Science 19(2):297-317 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 100344: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 08.12.2010, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Phocidae
"Monachus tropicalis" = Neomonachus tropicalis
"Monachus tropicalis" = Neomonachus tropicalis Gray 1850 Hawaiian monk seal
Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Gopherus polyphemus Daudin 1802 Florida gopher tortoise