Where: Sumter County, Florida (28.8° N, 82.1° W: paleocoordinates 28.8° N, 81.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)
• said to be late Irvingtonian
•material is from alternating clay and sand beds in "8 to 10 feet of sediments"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: sinkhole; brown claystone and gray, conglomeratic sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: salvage, quarrying,
• sediments "completely destroyed by mining operations in 1966"
Primary reference: R. A. Martin. 1974. Fossil mammals from the Coleman IIA fauna, Sumter County. In S. D. Webb (ed.), Pleistocene Mammals of Florida 35-99 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Head]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 20289: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Evangelos Vlachos and Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
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Dasypus bellus Simpson 1929 beautiful armadillo | |
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Reithrodontomys humulis, Sigmodon bakeri n. sp., Pitymys cf. mcnowni12, Neofiber alleni, Podomys floridanus1, Peromyscus sp., Ochrotomys nuttalli
Reithrodontomys humulis Audubon and Bachman 1841 eastern harvest mouse
Sigmodon bakeri n. sp. Martin 1974 cotton rat
Neofiber alleni True 1884 round-tailed muskrat
Ochrotomys nuttalli Harlan 1832 golden mouse | |
Sciurus carolinensis Gmelin 1788 eastern gray squirrel | |
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Erethizon dorsatum Linnaeus 1758 North American porcupine | |
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Procyon lotor Linnaeus 1758 raccoon | |
Spilogale putorius Linnaeus 1758 eastern spotted skunk
Mephitis mephitis Schreber 1776 striped skunk | |
Arctodus pristinus Leidy 1854 bear | |
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"Tapirus veroensis" = Tapirus (Helicotapirus) veroensis5
"Tapirus veroensis" = Tapirus (Helicotapirus) veroensis5 Sellards 1918 tapir described by Hulbert 1995a
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Odocoileus virginianus Zimmermann 1780 white-tailed deer | |
Palaeolama cf. mirifica Simpson 1929 stout-legged llama | |
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Scalopus aquaticus Linnaeus 1758 eastern mole | |
Cryptotis parva Say 1823 North American least shrew | |
Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828 mammoth | |
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Didelphis virginiana Kerr 1792 Virginia opossum | |
Reptilia | |
Gopherus polyphemus3 Daudin 1802 Florida gopher tortoise This large sample includes 13 NUCH (UF 13390) (Fig. 5); five complete EPI (UF 13395a-c, e-f) (Fig. 6); 20 right EPI (UF13392a-t); and 14 left EPI (UF 13394a-m, UF 13395d); 18 PYG (including six with attached suprapygals) (UF 13402); two isolated first suprapygals; two paired XIPH (UF 13391a-b); 18 right XIPH (UF13391c-e,13397, 13398); and 10 left XIPH (UF 13397, 13398).
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