Melbourne (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Brevard County, Florida (28.1° N, 80.6° W: paleocoordinates 28.1° N, 80.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• 0.01-0.7 m.y.a.

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: P. J. Adam and G. G. Garcia. 2003. New information on the natural history, distribution, and skull size of the extinct (?) West Indian monk seal, Monachus tropicalis. Marine Mammal Science 19(2):297-317 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 100343: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 08.12.2010, edited by Terri Cleary

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Crotalidae
Crotalus adamanteus Palisot de Beauvois 1799 eastern diamondback rattlesnake
"near Melbourne" USNM 13679, 5 thoracic vertebrae; Cambr. Mus. Zool. (uncatalogued), several hundred thoracic vertebrae representing many individuals
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Phocidae
"Monachus tropicalis" = Neomonachus tropicalis
"Monachus tropicalis" = Neomonachus tropicalis Gray 1850 Hawaiian monk seal