Surprise Cave (Pleistocene of the United States)
Where: Alachua County, Florida (29.7° N, 82.4° W: paleocoordinates 29.7° N, 82.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: sinkhole; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. Franz and I. R. Quitmyer. 2005. A fossil and zooarchaeological history of the gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) in the Southeastern United States. Bull. Fla. Mus. Nat. History 45(4):179-199 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 195110: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 20.07.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Gopherus polyphemus Daudin 1802 Florida gopher tortoise The large sample consists of seven NUCH (UF 160156- 160157, 160208, 160209, 161885-161886, 161674), seven right and three left EPI (UF 160354, 161661-161663, 161914-161917, 161971, uncat.), ten right and six left HYO (UF 138001, 138002, 160334-160335, 161923, 161925, 161664, 161970, uncat.), 12 right and 14 left XIPH (UF 138002, 138060, 138063, 160207, 160332- 160333, 160336-160337, 160849, 161669-161670, 161735, 161788-161789, 161919-161922, uncat.), and several hundred shell and internal bone fragments (cat. and uncat. specimens).
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