PBDB Collection

Haile VIIIA (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)

• said to be Sangamonian

Environment/lithology: cave; gray, red, yellow, argillaceous sandstone and black, gray mudstone

• gray, yellow sandstone (lower layer); "brownish-black to dark gray soil, approximately 8 ft thick" (middle layer); "reddish clayey sand, 5 ft thick, homogeneously sandy" (lower part of upper layer); "reddish clayey sand, 5 ft thick, contains condsiderably more clay as well as many eroded bits of Ocala Limestone" (upper part of upper layer)

Size class: macrofossils

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

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 20594: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995, edited by Susanna Kümmell and Evangelos Vlachos

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
Testudines - Emydidae	Terrapene putnami³, Terrapene carolina² Terrapene putnami³ Hay 1906 box turtle UF 3066 (neotype), complete shell and associated skeletal elements Terrapene carolina² Linnaeus 1758 common box turtle specimens are from the lower layer (yellow sand), middle layer (black soil), and both lower and upper parts of the upper layer (red clayey sand) and includes possible material of bauri, carolina, and putnami
Testudines - Testudinidae	Gopherus polyphemus⁴ Gopherus polyphemus⁴ Daudin 1802 Florida gopher tortoise The sample from Haile 8A contains one skull (UF 3147), a large number of nearly complete shells (UF 2988, 3127-3131, 3254, 3476-3478, 3786-3790, 3793-3794, 9435, 9575- 9582, 51610), 10 isolated NUCH (UF 3024, 3249, 3818, 3835-3839, 9436, 9583), two EPI (UF 9604), a first dorsal vertebra (UF 9604), isolated PYG and suprapygal (UF 19021), XIPH (UF 3791), and assorted fragments (UF 3242, 3257, 9434, 9562, 9565, 9574, 9604, 9673- 9675, 9692).
Mammalia
Cingulata - Dasypodidae	Dasypus bellus Dasypus bellus Simpson 1929 beautiful armadillo
Cingulata - Pampatheriidae	Holmesina septentrionalis¹ Holmesina septentrionalis¹ Leidy 1889 edentate
Rodentia - Geomyidae	Geomys pinetis Geomys pinetis Rafinesque 1817 southeastern pocket gopher described by Wilkins 1984
Rodentia - Cricetidae	Ochrotomys nuttalli, Sigmodon hispidus, "Pitymys pinetorum" = Microtus pinetorum Ochrotomys nuttalli Harlan 1832 golden mouse Sigmodon hispidus Say and Ord 1825 hispid cotton rat "Pitymys pinetorum" = Microtus pinetorum Le Conte 1830 woodland vole
Lagomorpha - Leporidae	Sylvilagus floridanus Sylvilagus floridanus Allen 1890 eastern cottontail
Carnivora - Felidae	Lynx rufus¹ Lynx rufus¹ Schreber 1777 bobcat
Carnivora - Canidae	"Canis dirus" = Aenocyon dirus, Urocyon cinereoargenteus "Canis dirus" = Aenocyon dirus Leidy 1858 dire wolf confirmed by Nowak 1979 Urocyon cinereoargenteus Schreber 1775 gray fox
Carnivora - Mephitidae	Mephitis mephitis Mephitis mephitis Schreber 1776 striped skunk
Carnivora - Mustelidae	"Mustela frenata" = Neogale frenata "Mustela frenata" = Neogale frenata Lichtenstein 1831 long-tailed weasel
Artiodactyla - Camelidae	Hemiauchenia macrocephala Hemiauchenia macrocephala Cope 1893 camel
Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae	Platygonus compressus Platygonus compressus Leconte 1848 peccary
Artiodactyla - Bovidae	Bison latifrons Bison latifrons Harlan 1825 bison see also McDonald 1981
Artiodactyla - Cervidae	Odocoileus virginianus Odocoileus virginianus Zimmermann 1780 white-tailed deer
Perissodactyla - Equidae	Equus sp. Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse

¹Alroy 2002; ²Auffenberg 1967; ³Ehret et al. 2013; ⁴Franz and Quitmyer 2005