Where: Dade County, Florida (26.0° N, 80.7° W: paleocoordinates 25.9° N, 80.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Rancholabrean (0.3 - 0.0 Ma)

• Morgan 2002: The fossils were discovered in a small sinkhole less than 5 m above sea level and approximately 10 km inland from the Atlantic Ocean on the Atlantic Coastal Ridge. Like Cutler Hammock, the fossils at Monkey Jungle were found in a sink-hole in a tropical hardwood hammock developed in the marine late Pleistocene Miami Limestone. Both the Monkey Jungle and Cutler sites were formed during periods of much lower sea level and correspondingly lowered water tables. Consequently, a very late Pleistocene (late Rancholabrean) age is most likely.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Franz and I. R. Quitmyer. 2005. A fossil and zooarchaeological history of the gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) in the Southeastern United States. Bull. Fla. Mus. Nat. History 45(4):179-199 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 195112: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 20.07.2018, edited by Grace Varnham

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