Haile IVB: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Florida
collected by J. Waldrop, R. A. Martin 1968
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Ranidae
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Rana sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Bufonidae
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Bufo sp.
Laurenti 1768
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Reptilia
- Colubridae
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Coluber constrictor
Linnaeus 1758
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Reptilia
- Elapidae
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Micrurus fulvius
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Emydidae
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Terrapene carolina
(Linnaeus 1758)
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| "not T. c. putnami" | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Geochelone crassiscutata
(Leidy 1889)
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| recombined as Hesperotestudo crassiscutata | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cingulata
- Dasypodidae
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Dasypus bellus
(Simpson 1929)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mephitidae
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Conepatus robustus n. sp.
Martin 1978
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Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Platygonus compressus
Leconte 1848
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Hemiauchenia macrocephala
(Cope 1893)
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Odocoileus virginianus
(Zimmermann 1780)
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Sylvilagus sp.
Gray 1867
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Sigmodon hispidus
Say and Ord 1825
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Geomyidae
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Geomys pinetis
Rafinesque 1817
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Florida | County: | Alachua |
| Coordinates: | 29.7° North, 82.6° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 29.7° North, 82.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Altitude: | 25 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
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
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "Sangamonian 2 faunal zone" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | brown conglomeratic claystone |
| Lithology description: "a dry, brown clay mixed with limestone fragments ranging from pebble to cobble size" | |
| Environment: | sinkhole |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | interglacial |
| Geology comments: "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" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | FLMNH | ||
| Collectors: | J. Waldrop, R. A. Martin | Collection dates: | 1968 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 79667 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-03-17 13:23:05 | Last modified: | 2008-03-17 15:23:05 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-03-17 13:23:05 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 26766. | 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] |