Wilson Quarry Local Fauna (Pleistocene of the United States)
Where: St. John County, Florida (29.9° N, 81.4° W: paleocoordinates 29.9° N, 81.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Rancholabrean (0.3 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
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 195113: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 20.07.2018
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Gopherus polyphemus Daudin 1802 Florida gopher tortoise One peripheral (UF 11598) was found in a cemented marine shell hash associated with the Anastasia Formation, indicating a inshore origin, with the tortoise possibly originating from the dune strand along a former coast line
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