Arredondo IB (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Alachua County, Florida (29.8° N, 82.1° W: paleocoordinates 29.8° N, 81.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: S. D. Webb. 1974. Chronology of Florida Pleistocene mammals. In S. D. Webb (ed.), Pleistocene Mammals of Florida 5-31 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

PaleoDB collection 20572: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995

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Taxonomic list

• said to be "18O stage 5"
Mammalia
 Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Dasypus bellus Simpson 1929 beautiful armadillo
 Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Myotis austroriparius Rhoads 1897 vesper bat
a bat
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut americanum Kerr 1792 American mastodon
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus americanus Pallas 1780 black bear
 Carnivora - Canidae
"Canis dirus" = Aenocyon dirus
"Canis dirus" = Aenocyon dirus Leidy 1858 dire wolf
confirmed by Nowak 1979
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
"Tapirus veroensis" = Tapirus (Helicotapirus) veroensis
"Tapirus veroensis" = Tapirus (Helicotapirus) veroensis Sellards 1918 tapir
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Mylohyus fossilis Leidy 1860 peccary
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Odocoileus virginianus Zimmermann 1780 white-tailed deer
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
Scalopus aquaticus Linnaeus 1758 eastern mole
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Blarina cf. carolinensis Bachman 1837 southern short-tailed shrew
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Sylvilagus palustris Bachman 1837 marsh rabbit
Sylvilagus floridanus Allen 1890 eastern cottontail
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Synaptomys australis Simpson 1928 mouse
Neofiber alleni True 1884 round-tailed muskrat
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841 deer mouse
Neotoma floridana Ord 1818 eastern woodrat
"Pitymys pinetorum" = Microtus pinetorum Le Conte 1830 woodland vole
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Sciurus carolinensis Gmelin 1788 eastern gray squirrel
 Rodentia - Geomyidae
Geomys pinetis Rafinesque 1817 southeastern pocket gopher
described by Wilkins 1984
 Didelphimorphia - Didelphidae
Didelphis virginiana Kerr 1792 Virginia opossum