Edisto Island (Pleistocene of the United States)
Where: South Carolina (32.6° N, 80.3° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 80.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Silver Bluff Formation, Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithology not reported
• barrier island sediments, wave-cut platform
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. A. Roth and J. Laerm. 1980. A late Pleistocene vertebrate assemblage from Edisto Island, South Carolina. Brimleyana 3:1-29 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 65405: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 21.09.2006, edited by Evangelos Vlachos, John Alroy and Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Glossotherium (Paramylodon) cf. harlani" = Paramylodon harlani
"Glossotherium (Paramylodon) cf. harlani" = Paramylodon harlani Owen 1840 Harlan's ground sloth | |
"Eremotherium cf. mirabile" = Megatherium mirabile
"Eremotherium cf. mirabile" = Megatherium mirabile Leidy 1855 edentate | |
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Megalonyx cf. jeffersonii Desmarest 1822 Jefferson's ground sloth originally entered as "Megalonyx cf. jeffersoni"
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"Glyptotherium floridanum" = Glyptotherium cylindricum
"Glyptotherium floridanum" = Glyptotherium cylindricum Brown 1912 Florida glyptodont | |
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Dasypus bellus Simpson 1929 beautiful armadillo | |
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Trichechus sp. Linnaeus 1758 manatee | |
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Mammuthus cf. columbi Falconer 1857 Columbian mammoth | |
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Mammut americanum Kerr 1792 American mastodon | |
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Neochoerus pinckneyi Hay 1926 caviomorph | |
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Castoroides cf. ohioensis Foster 1838 giant beaver
Castor canadensis Kuhl 1820 American beaver | |
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Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867 cottontail rabbit | |
Urocyon cf. cinereoargenteus, "Canis dirus" = Aenocyon dirus
Urocyon cf. cinereoargenteus Schreber 1775 gray fox
"Canis dirus" = Aenocyon dirus Leidy 1858 dire wolf | |
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Procyon lotor Linnaeus 1758 raccoon | |
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Tremarctos floridanus Gidley 1928 Florida cave bear | |
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cf. Odobenus rosmarus Linnaeus 1758 walrus | |
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cf. Halichoerus grypus Fabricius 1791 grey seal | |
"Felis onca" = Panthera onca
"Felis onca" = Panthera onca Linnaeus 1758 jaguar | |
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Balaenopteridae indet. Gray 1864 rorqual | |
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Tursiops cf. truncatus Gray 1866 common bottlenose dolphin | |
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Physeter sp. Linnaeus 1758 sperm whale | |
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Odocoileus virginianus Zimmermann 1780 white-tailed deer | |
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Bison cf. antiquus Leidy 1852 bison | |
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Mylohyus cf. fossilis Leidy 1860 peccary | |
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Palaeolama cf. mirifica Simpson 1929 stout-legged llama | |
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Tapirus sp. Brisson 1762 tapir | |
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Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
| Reptilia | |
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cf. Elaphe sp. Wagler 1833 colubrid snake | |
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Kinosternon sp. von Spix 1824 mud turtle | |
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Chrysemys scripta painted turtle
Chrysemys floridana painted turtle
Terrapene carolina Linnaeus 1758 common box turtle | |
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Geochelone sp. Fitzinger 1835 turtle | |
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Chelydra serpentina Linnaeus 1758 Common snapping turtle | |
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Alligator mississippiensis Daudin 1801 American alligator | |