Pelican Road Shell Pit (Pleistocene of the United States)

Also known as UF CH010

Where: Charlotte County, Florida (27.0° N, 82.0° W: paleocoordinates 27.1° N, 81.6° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Blancan mammal zone, Caloosahatchee Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology:

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite, original phosphate

Collected by S. Emslie, W. Filyaw in 1995; reposited in the FLMNH

Primary reference: S. D. Emslie. 1998. Avian community, climate, and sea-level changes in the Plio-Pleistocene of the Florida Peninsula. Ornithological Monographs (50)1-113 [J. Bloch/R. Hulbert]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154721: authorized by Jonathan Bloch, entered by Richard Hulbert on 05.03.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Accipitriformes - Accipitridae
Buteogallus fragilis Miller 1911 black-hawks
oldest record and first from eastern USA
 Ciconiiformes - Ciconiidae
Ciconia maltha Miller 1910 asphalt stork
 Anseriformes - Anatidae
Anas sp. Linnaeus 1758 dabbling duck
 Gruiformes - Rallidae
Fulica americana Gmelin 1789 American coot
 Podicipediformes - Podicipedidae
Podilymbus podiceps Linnaeus 1758 pied-billed grebe