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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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 - Crotalidae
Agkistrodon piscivorous Lacépède cottonmouth
 Squamata - Colubridae
Thamnophis sirtalis Linnaeus garter snake
"Natrix sipedon" = Nerodia sipedon Linnaeus 1758 northern water snake
Lampropeltis getulus Linnaeus 1766 kingsnake
Elaphe guttata Linnaeus 1766 corn snake
Natrix cyclopion water snake
Drymarchon corais Boie 1827 cribo
Aves
 Pelecaniformes - Threskiornithidae
"Guara alba" = Eudocimus albus1
"Guara alba" = Eudocimus albus1 Linnaeus 1758 White ibis
 Anseriformes - Anatidae
Anas platyrhynchos1 Linnaeus 1758 mallard
 Passeriformes - Passerellidae
Ammodramus savannarum1 Gmelin 1789 grasshopper sparrow
 Gruiformes - Rallidae
Fulica americana1, "Porphyrula martinica" = Porphyrio martinica1, Gallinula chloropus1, "Porzana auffenbergi n. sp." = Rallus limicola2
Fulica americana1 Gmelin 1789 American coot
"Porphyrula martinica" = Porphyrio martinica1 Linnaeus 1766 purple gallinule
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
Amphibia
 Caudata - Urodela
Siren lacertina3 Linnaeus 1766 greater siren
 Salientia - Ranidae