Haile IVB (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Alachua County, Florida (29.7° N, 82.6° W: paleocoordinates 29.7° N, 82.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• "Sangamonian 2 faunal zone"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: sinkhole; brown, conglomeratic claystone

• "a cylindrical limestone chimney one meter in diameter by three meters high down the internal quarry face to the pit floor approximately 10 m below"
• "a dry, brown clay mixed with limestone fragments ranging from pebble to cobble size"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Waldrop, R. A. Martin in 1968; reposited in the FLMNH

Primary reference: R. A. Martin. 1978. A new Late Pleistocene Conepatus and associated vertebrate fauna from Florida. Journal of Paleontology 52(5):1079-1085 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79667: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 17.03.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Squamata - Elapidae
Micrurus fulvius
Micrurus fulvius coral snake
 Squamata - Colubridae
Coluber constrictor
Coluber constrictor Linnaeus 1758 black racer
 Testudines - Emydidae
Terrapene carolina
Terrapene carolina Linnaeus 1758 common box turtle
"not T. c. putnami"
 Testudines - Testudinidae
"Geochelone crassiscutata" = Hesperotestudo crassiscutata
"Geochelone crassiscutata" = Hesperotestudo crassiscutata Leidy 1889 turtle
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Odocoileus virginianus
Odocoileus virginianus Zimmermann 1780 white-tailed deer
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Platygonus compressus
Platygonus compressus Leconte 1848 peccary
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Hemiauchenia macrocephala
 Carnivora - Mephitidae
Conepatus robustus n. sp.
Conepatus robustus n. sp. Martin 1978 hog-nosed skunk
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Sigmodon hispidus
Sigmodon hispidus Say and Ord 1825 hispid cotton rat
 Rodentia - Geomyidae
Geomys pinetis
Geomys pinetis Rafinesque 1817 southeastern pocket gopher
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Sylvilagus sp.
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867 cottontail rabbit
 Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Dasypus bellus
Dasypus bellus Simpson 1929 beautiful armadillo
Amphibia
 Salientia - Bufonidae
Bufo sp.
Bufo sp. Laurenti 1768 toad
 Salientia - Ranidae
Rana sp.
Rana sp. Linnaeus 1758 frog