Hornsby Springs: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Florida
collected 1930 & 1954-1955
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Neofiber alleni
True 1884
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Aenocyon ayersi
(Sellards 1916)
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| synonym of Aenocyon dirus | |||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Tanupolama mirifica
Simpson 1929
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| recombined as Palaeolama mirifica | |||||||
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Odocoileus virginianus
(Zimmermann 1780)
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Tapiridae
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Tapirus veroensis
Sellards 1918
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| recombined as Tapirus (Helicotapirus) veroensis | |||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus sp.
Brookes 1828
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Mammut americanum
(Kerr 1792)
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Mammalia
- Mylodontidae
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Paramylodon harlani
(Owen 1840)
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Mammalia
- Cingulata
- Pampatheriidae
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Holmesina septentrionalis
(Leidy 1889)
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Reptilia
- Colubridae
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Nerodia taxispilota
Holbrook 1842
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Gibbons and Dorcas 2004 | ||||||
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Urodela
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Siren lacertina
Linnaeus 1766
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Goin and Auffenberg 1955 | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Florida | County: | Alachua |
| Coordinates: | 29.9° North, 82.6° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 29.9° North, 82.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | unpublished field data |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | Mammal zone: | Rancholabrean |
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | spring |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection size: | 266 specimens |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | FLMNH | Collection dates: | 1930 & 1954-1955 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | UF AL016 | ||
| Database number: | 154910 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Bloch, A. Dunhill | Enterer: | R. Hulbert, B. Allen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2014-03-18 17:09:13 | Last modified: | 2014-03-18 17:09:13 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-03-18 17:09:13 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 50427. | R. S. Bader. 1957. Two Pleistocene mammalian faunas from Alachua County, Florida. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 2(5):53-75 [J. Bloch/R. Hulbert] |
Secondary references:
| 67900 | J. W. Gibbons and M. E. Dorcas. 2004. North American Watersnakes: A Natural History. 1-438 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen] | |
| 50692 | C. J. Goin and W. Auffenberg. 1955. The fossil salamanders of the family Sirenidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 113(7):497-514 [J. Bloch/R. Hulbert] |