Also known as UF AL010
Where: Alachua County, Florida (29.7° N, 82.6° W: paleocoordinates 29.7° N, 82.6° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
When: Rancholabrean mammal zone, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Brodkorb (1953) noted bird fossils came from both stratum 3 (yellow-brown sand) and stratum 2 (blue or yellow clay with lenses of fresh water shells).
Environment/lithology: spring; unlithified siliciclastic sediments
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: original calcite, original phosphate
Collected in the 1950s; reposited in the FLMNH
Primary reference: W. Auffenberg. 1963. The fossil snakes of Florida. Tulane Studies in Zoology 10(3):131-216 [J. Head/J. Head/R. Hulbert]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 154922: authorized by Jonathan Bloch, entered by Richard Hulbert on 19.03.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Elaphe guttata, Masticophis flagellum, Lampropeltis getulus, Thamnophis sirtalis, "Natrix sipedon" = Nerodia sipedon, Drymarchon corais
Elaphe guttata Linnaeus 1766 corn snake
Masticophis flagellum whip snake
Lampropeltis getulus Linnaeus 1766 kingsnake
Thamnophis sirtalis Linnaeus garter snake
"Natrix sipedon" = Nerodia sipedon Linnaeus 1758 northern water snake
Drymarchon corais Boie 1827 cribo | |
Agkistrodon piscivorous Lacépède cottonmouth | |
Natrix cyclopion water snake
Natrix cf. erythrogaster water snake | |
Aves | |
"Guara alba" = Eudocimus albus1
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"Porphyrula martinica" = Porphyrio martinica1, Gallinula chloropus1, Fulica americana1, "Porzana auffenbergi n. sp." = Rallus limicola2
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Amphibia | |
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