Coleman IIA: Irvingtonian, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Didelphimorphia
Didelphis virginiana Kerr 1792
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Myotis cf. austroriparius (Rhoads 1897)
a bat
Plecotus rafinesquii (Lesson 1818)
a bat: omitted by Webb and Wilkins 1984
Pipistrellus subflavus (Cuvier 1832)
a bat
Mammalia - Cingulata - Pampatheriidae
Chlamytherium septentrionalis (Leidy 1889)
    = Holmesina septentrionalis Leidy 1889
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Dasypus bellus (Simpson 1929)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
    = Equus leidyi Hay 1913
Hulbert 1995
nomen vanum belonging to Equus
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tapirus veroensis Sellards 1918
Hulbert and Morgan 1993
recombined as Tapirus (Helicotapirus) veroensis
described by Hulbert 1995a
Mammalia - Cervidae
Odocoileus virginianus (Zimmermann 1780)
Mammalia - Camelidae
Palaeolama cf. mirifica (Simpson 1929)
Hemiauchenia macrocephala (Cope 1893)
Morgan and Hulbert 1995
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Mylohyus sp. Cope 1869
    = Mylohyus fossilis Leidy 1860
Morgan and Hulbert 1995
Platygonus cumberlandensis Gidley 1920
    = Platygonus vetus Leidy 1882
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Felis onca Linnaeus 1758
    = Panthera onca Linnaeus 1758
Alroy 2002
"Felis onca augusta"
Miracinonyx sp. (Adams 1979)
Morgan and Seymour 1997
Felis rufus (Schreber 1777)
    = Lynx rufus Schreber 1777
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Arctodus pristinus Leidy 1854
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mephitidae
Conepatus sp. Gray 1837
    = Conepatus leuconotus Lichtenstein 1832
Webb and Wilkins 1984
Mephitis mephitis (Schreber 1776)
Spilogale putorius (Linnaeus 1758)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Procyonidae
Procyon lotor (Linnaeus 1758)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis lupus Linnaeus 1758
    = Canis armbrusteri Gidley 1913
Nowak 1979
Urocyon minicephalus n. sp. Martin 1974
    = Urocyon sp. Baird 1857
Webb and Wilkins 1984
    = Urocyon cinereoargenteus Schreber 1775
Berta 1995
    = Urocyon minicephalus n. sp. Martin 1974
Tedford et al. 2009
Mammalia - Talpidae
Scalopus aquaticus (Linnaeus 1758)
Mammalia - Soricidae
Blarina brevicauda (Say 1823)
    = Blarina carolinensis Bachman 1837
Jones et al. 1984
Cryptotis parva (Say 1823)
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867
    = Sylvilagus floridanus Allen 1890
Webb and Wilkins 1984
Lepus alleni Mearns 1890
    = Lepus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Morgan and White 1995
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Glaucomys volans (Linnaeus 1758)
    = Glaucomys sp. Thomas 1908
Alroy 2002
according to Webb and Wilkins 1984, but i.d. repeated by Morgan and White 1995
Sciurus carolinensis Gmelin 1788
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Thomomys orientalis Simpson 1928
Morgan and White 1995
Geomys cf. pinetis Rafinesque 1817
described by Wilkins 1984
Mammalia - Rodentia - Caviidae
Hydrochoerus holmesi Simpson 1928
    = Neochoerus aesopi Leidy 1853
Webb and Wilkins 1984
"H. sp."
Mammalia - Rodentia - Erethizontidae
Erethizon dorsatum (Linnaeus 1758)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Neofiber alleni True 1884
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841
small species according to Morgan and White 1995
Pitymys aratai n. sp. Martin 1974
    = Pitymys cf. mcnowni Hibbard 1937
Webb and Wilkins 1984
Peromyscus floridanus (Chapman 1889)
    = Podomys floridanus Chapman 1889
Alroy 2002
Ochrotomys nuttalli (Harlan 1832)
Reithrodontomys humulis (Audubon and Bachman 1841)
Sigmodon bakeri n. sp. Martin 1974
(1 measurement)
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Geochelone mlynarskii n. sp. Auffenberg 1988
Auffenberg 1988
synonym of Hesperotestudo turgida
subgenus Hesperotestudo
Gopherus polyphemus (Daudin 1802)
Franz and Quitmyer 2005
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).
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Sumter
Coordinates: 28.8° North, 82.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:28.8° North, 81.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:80 feet
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Local age/stage:Late/Upper Irvingtonian
Key time interval:Irvingtonian
Age range of interval:1.40000 - 0.21000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: said to be late Irvingtonian
material is from alternating clay and sand beds in "8 to 10 feet of sediments"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:brown claystone
Secondary lithology:gray conglomeratic sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "a wet orange-brown clay and a coarse gray-white sand... sand facies were filled with pebble- to boulder-sized limestone rubble"
Environment:sinkhole
Geology comments: "filled sinkhole... 30 yards long by 25 yards wide"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:salvage,selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: sediments "completely destroyed by mining operations in 1966"
Metadata
Database number:20289
Authorizer:J. Alroy, E. Vlachos, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot, E. Vlachos
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2020-12-07 16:29:38
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
2436.5% 36580R. 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]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
767 W. Auffenberg. 1988. A new species of Geochelone (Testudinata: Testudinidae) from the Pleistocene of Florida (U.S.A.). Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 31(23):591-604 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/E. Vlachos]
1063 A. Berta. 1995. Fossil carnivores from the Leisey Shell Pits, Hillsborough County, Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 37(14):463-499 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
66358 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]
1955 R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1995. Equus from Leisey Shell Pit 1A and other Irvingtonian localities from Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 37(17):553-602 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
1961 R. C. Hulbert, Jr. and G. S. Morgan. 1993. Quantitative and qualitative evolution in the giant armadillo Holmesina (Edentata: Pampatheriidae) in Florida. In R. A. Martin and A. D. Barnosky (eds.), Morphological change in Quaternary mammals of North America 134-204 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
2046 C. A. Jones, J. R. Choate, and H. H. Genoways. 1984. Phylogeny and Paleobiogeography of Short-tailed Shrews (Genus Blarina). In H. H. Genoways and M. R. Dawson (eds.), Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 8:56-148 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
2615 G. S. Morgan and R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1995. Overview of the geology and vertebrate biochronology of the Leisey Shell Pit Local Fauna, Hillsborough County, Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 37(1) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
2623 G. S. Morgan and K. L. Seymour. 1997. Fossil history of the panther (Puma concolor) and the cheetah-like cat (Miracinonyx inexpectatus) in Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 40(2):177-219 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
2624 G. S. Morgan and J. A. White. 1995. Small mammals (Insectivora, Lagomorpha, and Rodentia) from the early Pleistocene (early Irvingtonian) Leisey Shell Pit Local Fauna, Hillsborough County, Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 37(13) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
2673 R. M. Nowak. 1979. North American Quaternary Canis. Monograph of the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas 6:1-154 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
52058 R. H. Tedford, X. Wang, and B. E. Taylor. 2009. Phylogenetic Systematics of the North American Fossil Caninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 325:1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot/G. Lloyd]
3580 S. D. Webb and K. T. Wilkins. 1984. Historical Biogeography of Florida Pleistocene Mammals. In H. H. Genoways and M. R. Dawson (eds.), Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 8:370-383 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]