HAILE 1A: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Florida
collected 1950

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Pelecaniformes - Threskiornithidae
Guara alba (Linnaeus 1758)
Brodkorb 1953
recombined as Eudocimus albus
Reptilia - Passeriformes - Passerellidae
Ammodramus savannarum (Gmelin 1789)
Brodkorb 1953
Reptilia - Anseriformes - Anatidae
Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus 1758
Brodkorb 1953
Reptilia - Gruiformes - Rallidae
Porphyrula martinica (Linnaeus 1766)
Brodkorb 1953
recombined as Porphyrio martinica
Porzana auffenbergi n. sp. Brodkorb 1954
Brodkorb 1954
synonym of Rallus limicola
Gallinula chloropus (Linnaeus 1758)
Brodkorb 1953
Fulica americana Gmelin 1789
Brodkorb 1953
Reptilia - Podicipediformes - Podicipedidae
Podilymbus podiceps (Linnaeus 1758)
Brodkorb 1953
Reptilia - Crotalidae
Agkistrodon piscivorous Lacépède
Reptilia - Colubridae
Natrix cyclopion
Natrix cf. erythrogaster
Drymarchon corais (Boie 1827)
Thamnophis sirtalis Linnaeus
Natrix sipedon (Linnaeus 1758)
recombined as Nerodia sipedon
Elaphe guttata (Linnaeus 1766)
Lampropeltis getulus (Linnaeus 1766)
Masticophis flagellum
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Ranidae
Rana grylio
Tihen 1952
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela
Siren lacertina Linnaeus 1766
Goin and Auffenberg 1955
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Alachua
Coordinates: 29.7° North, 82.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.7° North, 82.6° 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Basis of coordinate:unpublished field data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
Stratigraphy comments: Brodkorb (1953) noted bird fossils came from both stratum 3 (yellow-brown sand) and stratum 2 (blue or yellow clay with lenses of fresh water shells).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:"cross stratification" unlithified "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:spring
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original calcite,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:FLMNH
Collection dates:early 1950s
Taxonomic list comments:fresh water shells reported to be present but not identified; mammals rare and possibly never published
Metadata
Also known as:UF AL010
Database number:154922
Authorizer:J. Bloch Enterer:R. Hulbert
Modifier:R. Hulbert Research group:vertebrate
Created:2014-03-19 18:07:09 Last modified:2014-03-19 19:13:39
Access level:the public Released:2014-03-19 18:07:09
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

10101.5% 39920W. Auffenberg. 1963. The fossil snakes of Florida. Tulane Studies in Zoology 10(3):131-216 [J. Head/J. Head/R. Hulbert]

Secondary references:

50441 P. Brodkorb. 1953. Pleistocene birds from Haile, Florida. The Wilson Bulletin 65(1):49-50 [J. Bloch/R. Hulbert]
50439 P. Brodkorb. 1954. Another new rail from the Pleistocene of Florida. The Condor 56(2):103-104 [J. Bloch/R. Hulbert]
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]
50444 J. A. Tihen. 1952. Rana grylio from the Pleistocene of Florida. Herpetologica 8(3):107 [J. Bloch/R. Hulbert]