Hornsby Springs (Pleistocene of the United States)

Also known as UF AL016

Where: Alachua County, Florida (29.9° N, 82.6° W: paleocoordinates 29.9° N, 82.0° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

When: Rancholabrean mammal zone, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: spring

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collected in 1930 & 1954-1955; reposited in the FLMNH

Primary reference: R. S. Bader. 1957. Two Pleistocene mammalian faunas from Alachua County, Florida. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 2(5):53-75 [J. Bloch/R. Hulbert]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 154910: authorized by Jonathan Bloch, entered by Richard Hulbert on 18.03.2014, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut americanum Kerr 1792 American mastodon
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828 mammoth
 Cingulata - Pampatheriidae
Holmesina septentrionalis Leidy 1889 edentate
  - Mylodontidae
Paramylodon harlani Owen 1840 Harlan's ground sloth
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
"Tapirus veroensis" = Tapirus (Helicotapirus) veroensis
"Tapirus veroensis" = Tapirus (Helicotapirus) veroensis Sellards 1918 tapir
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Odocoileus virginianus Zimmermann 1780 white-tailed deer
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
"Tanupolama mirifica" = Palaeolama mirifica
"Tanupolama mirifica" = Palaeolama mirifica Simpson 1929 stout-legged llama
 Carnivora - Canidae
"Aenocyon ayersi" = Aenocyon dirus
"Aenocyon ayersi" = Aenocyon dirus Leidy 1858 dire wolf
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Neofiber alleni True 1884 round-tailed muskrat
Reptilia
 Squamata - Colubridae
Nerodia taxispilota1 Holbrook 1842 brown water snake
Amphibia
 Caudata - Urodela
Siren lacertina2 Linnaeus 1766 greater siren