Bone Cave (near Floral city) (Pleistocene of the United States)
Where: Citrus County, Florida (28.7° N, 82.3° W: paleocoordinates 28.7° N, 82.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: cave; 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 195111: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 20.07.2018
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Gopherus polyphemus Daudin 1802 Florida gopher tortoise The substantial sample includes 2 large NUCH (UF uncat.), 4 left and 3 right EPI (UF 6534, uncat.), 2 left XIPH (UF 6534, uncat.), one femur (UF 2256), a neural with attached first dorsal vertebra (UF uncat.), one anterior plastron with EPI (eroded) and ENT (UF2100), and many shell fragments (UF 6519, 6534, uncat.).
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