Aucilla River (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Taylor County, Florida (30.1° N, 84.0° W: paleocoordinates 30.9° N, 84.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

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

• All fossil specimens are considered to be Rancholabrean (Late Pleistocene) in age.

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1984-1997; reposited in the FLMNH

Collection methods: surface (float),

• "recovered while scuba diving by the Aucilla River Project

•at the Florida Museum of Natural History"

Primary reference: D. J. Ehret and B. K. Atkinson. 2012. The fossil record of the diamond-backed terrapin, Malaclemys terrapin (Testudines: Emydidae). Journal of Herpetology 46(3):351-355 [M. Uhen/J. Benefield/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 150575: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Jacqueline Benefield on 10.09.2013, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Emydidae
Malaclemys terrapin Schoepff 1793 diamondback terrapin
Graptemys kerneri Ehret and Bourque 2011 map turtle