Haile VIIIA (Pleistocene of the United States)
Where: Alachua County, Florida (29.8° N, 82.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• said to be Sangamonian
Environment/lithology: cave; gray, red, yellow, argillaceous sandstone and black, gray mudstone
• gray, yellow sandstone (lower layer); "brownish-black to dark gray soil, approximately 8 ft thick" (middle layer); "reddish clayey sand, 5 ft thick, homogeneously sandy" (lower part of upper layer); "reddish clayey sand, 5 ft thick, contains condsiderably more clay as well as many eroded bits of Ocala Limestone" (upper part of upper layer)
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 20594: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995, edited by Susanna Kümmell and Evangelos Vlachos
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Taxonomic list
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"Canis dirus" = Aenocyon dirus, Urocyon cinereoargenteus
Urocyon cinereoargenteus Schreber 1775 gray fox | |
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Mephitis mephitis Schreber 1776 striped skunk | |
"Mustela frenata" = Neogale frenata
"Mustela frenata" = Neogale frenata Lichtenstein 1831 long-tailed weasel | |
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Odocoileus virginianus Zimmermann 1780 white-tailed deer | |
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Platygonus compressus Leconte 1848 peccary | |
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Hemiauchenia macrocephala Cope 1893 camel | |
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Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
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Ochrotomys nuttalli Harlan 1832 golden mouse
"Pitymys pinetorum" = Microtus pinetorum Le Conte 1830 woodland vole
Sigmodon hispidus Say and Ord 1825 hispid cotton rat | |
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Sylvilagus floridanus Allen 1890 eastern cottontail | |
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Dasypus bellus Simpson 1929 beautiful armadillo | |
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Gopherus polyphemus4 Daudin 1802 Florida gopher tortoise The sample from Haile 8A contains one skull (UF 3147), a large number of nearly complete shells (UF 2988, 3127-3131, 3254, 3476-3478, 3786-3790, 3793-3794, 9435, 9575- 9582, 51610), 10 isolated NUCH (UF 3024, 3249, 3818, 3835-3839, 9436, 9583), two EPI (UF 9604), a first dorsal vertebra (UF 9604), isolated PYG and suprapygal (UF 19021), XIPH (UF 3791), and assorted fragments (UF 3242, 3257, 9434, 9562, 9565, 9574, 9604, 9673- 9675, 9692).
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Terrapene carolina2 Linnaeus 1758 common box turtle specimens are from the lower layer (yellow sand), middle layer (black soil), and both lower and upper parts of the upper layer (red clayey sand) and includes possible material of bauri, carolina, and putnami
Terrapene putnami3 Hay 1906 box turtle UF 3066 (neotype), complete shell and associated skeletal elements
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