Where: Sumter County, Florida (28.8° N, 82.1° W: paleocoordinates 28.8° N, 81.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)
• said to be late Irvingtonian
•material is from alternating clay and sand beds in "8 to 10 feet of sediments"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: sinkhole; brown claystone and gray, conglomeratic sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: salvage, quarrying,
• sediments "completely destroyed by mining operations in 1966"
Primary reference: R. A. Martin. 1974. Fossil mammals from the Coleman IIA fauna, Sumter County. In S. D. Webb (ed.), Pleistocene Mammals of Florida 35-99 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Head]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 20289: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Evangelos Vlachos and Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Gopherus polyphemus3 Daudin 1802 Florida gopher tortoise This large sample includes 13 NUCH (UF 13390) (Fig. 5); five complete EPI (UF 13395a-c, e-f) (Fig. 6); 20 right EPI (UF13392a-t); and 14 left EPI (UF 13394a-m, UF 13395d); 18 PYG (including six with attached suprapygals) (UF 13402); two isolated first suprapygals; two paired XIPH (UF 13391a-b); 18 right XIPH (UF13391c-e,13397, 13398); and 10 left XIPH (UF 13397, 13398).
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Mammalia | |
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Dasypus bellus Simpson 1929 beautiful armadillo | |
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Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828 mammoth | |
Arctodus pristinus Leidy 1854 bear | |
Procyon lotor Linnaeus 1758 raccoon | |
Spilogale putorius Linnaeus 1758 eastern spotted skunk
Mephitis mephitis Schreber 1776 striped skunk | |
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"Tapirus veroensis" = Tapirus (Helicotapirus) veroensis5
"Tapirus veroensis" = Tapirus (Helicotapirus) veroensis5 Sellards 1918 tapir described by Hulbert 1995a
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Palaeolama cf. mirifica Simpson 1929 stout-legged llama | |
Odocoileus virginianus Zimmermann 1780 white-tailed deer | |
Scalopus aquaticus Linnaeus 1758 eastern mole | |
Cryptotis parva Say 1823 North American least shrew | |
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Erethizon dorsatum Linnaeus 1758 North American porcupine | |
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Ochrotomys nuttalli, Podomys floridanus1, Neofiber alleni, Peromyscus sp., Sigmodon bakeri n. sp., Pitymys cf. mcnowni12, Reithrodontomys humulis
Ochrotomys nuttalli Harlan 1832 golden mouse
Neofiber alleni True 1884 round-tailed muskrat
Sigmodon bakeri n. sp. Martin 1974 cotton rat
Reithrodontomys humulis Audubon and Bachman 1841 eastern harvest mouse | |
Sciurus carolinensis Gmelin 1788 eastern gray squirrel | |
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Didelphis virginiana Kerr 1792 Virginia opossum |