Bradenton (51st Street): Late/Upper Pleistocene, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828
either M. floridanus or M. columbi
Mammalia - Soricidae
Blarina brevicauda (Say 1823)
    = Blarina cf. carolinensis Bachman 1837
Jones et al. 1984
"apparently" this species
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis dirus Leidy 1858
Nowak 1979
recombined as Aenocyon dirus
UF specimens; possibly an inadvertent omission by Webb
Mammalia - Cervidae
Odocoileus virginianus (Zimmermann 1780)
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bison latifrons (Harlan 1825)
see also McDonald 1981
Mammalia - Camelidae
Palaeolama mirifica (Simpson 1929)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tapirus veroensis Sellards 1918
Hulbert 1995
recombined as Tapirus (Helicotapirus) veroensis
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Neofiber alleni True 1884
Synaptomys australis Simpson 1928
Sigmodon bakeri Martin 1974
described by Martin 1974a
Reptilia - Testudines - Emydidae
Terrapene carolina (Linnaeus 1758)
Auffenberg 1958
subspecies T. carolina putnami
Reptilia - Teratornithidae
cf. Teratornis merriami Miller 1909
Becker 1984
Reptilia - Piciformes - Picidae
Melanerpes cf. carolinus (Linnaeus 1758)
Becker 1984
Reptilia - Podicipediformes - Podicipedidae
Podilymbus podiceps (Linnaeus 1758)
Becker 1984
Reptilia - Anseriformes - Anatidae
Lophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus 1758)
Becker 1984
Reptilia - Ciconiiformes - Ciconiidae
Ciconia maltha Miller 1910
Becker 1984
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Manatee
Coordinates: 27.5° North, 82.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.7° North, 80.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Late/Upper Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:interglacial
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:Sangamonian
also additional Sigmodon sp.
Metadata
Database number:20580
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Bloch Enterer:J. Alroy, R. Hulbert
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1995-10-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2007-09-18 13:31:23
Access level:the public Released:1995-10-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
3567. S. D. Webb. 1974. Chronology of Florida Pleistocene mammals. In S. D. Webb (ed.), Pleistocene Mammals of Florida 5-31 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

50428 W. A. Auffenberg. 1958. Fossil turtles of the genus Terrapene in Florida. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 3(2):53-92 [J. Bloch/R. Hulbert]
50432 J. J. Becker. 1984. Additions to the late Pleistocene avifauna of Bradenton, Manatee County, Florida. Florida Scientist 47(3):203-204 [J. Bloch/R. Hulbert]
1954 R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1995. The giant tapir, Tapirus haysii, from Leisey Shell Pit 1A and other Florida Irvingtonian Localities. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 37(16):515-551 [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]
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]