2 miles west of Melbourne (Pleistocene of the United States)

Also known as Golf Course locality; Golf Links locality

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

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Rancholabrean (0.3 - 0.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by J. W. Gidley in 1928

Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1938. Fossil snakes of North America. Geological Society of America Special Paper (9)1-96 [J. Head/J. Head]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 180339: authorized by Paul Barrett, entered by Terri Cleary on 13.07.2016, edited by Evangelos Vlachos and Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Colubridae
Coluber cf. constrictor Linnaeus 1758 black racer
(Coluber cf. constrictor constrictor) USNM 13777, vertebra
Drymarchon cf. corais Boie 1827 cribo
(Drymarchon cf. corais couperi) USNM 13671, 15 thoracic vertebrae; USNM 13775, 30 thoracic vertebrae (several individuals)
 Squamata - Crotalidae
Crotalus adamanteus Palisot de Beauvois 1799 eastern diamondback rattlesnake
USNM 11220, two thoracic vertebrae; 11856, 12 thoracic vertebrae; 13677, 3 thoracic vertebrae; 13678, 19 thoracic vertebrae
 Testudines - Emydidae
Terrapene singletoni n. sp.1, "Terrapene canaliculata" = Terrapene putnami1
Terrapene singletoni n. sp.1 Gilmore 1927 box turtle
USNM 11181, almost complete carapace
"Terrapene canaliculata" = Terrapene putnami1 Hay 1906 box turtle
USNM 11428
 Testudines - Testudinidae
"Testudo sellardsi" = Hesperotestudo crassiscutata2
"Testudo sellardsi" = Hesperotestudo crassiscutata2 Leidy 1889 turtle
Amherst College, complete shell
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Castoroides sp.3 Foster 1838 giant beaver
incisor fragment