Leisey Shell Pit 1A University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality HI007 Location About 7 km southwest of Ruskin near Cockroach Bay, Hillsborough County, Florida; 27.69° N, 82.50° W. Age Early Pleistocene Epoch; early Irvingtonian land mammal age About 1.5 to 1 million years ago (H
B. chrysoura Cynocion sp., cf.
The International Shark Attack File (ISAF) Databases of all sizes are traditionally assumed to be the domain of industry and the private sector, especially in the age of the “Internet of Things [IoT],� where sensor data from different internet-enabled devices is stored in aggregated forms for picki
respectively, C is the count of false negatives (incorrectly labeled false), and B
Floridatragulus dolichanthereus Quick Facts Common Name: none The fossils now recognized as one species of the camelid Floridatragulus dolichanthereus were initially assigned to two different families and four species. After better specimens were found and new research was done, it was discover
A) MCZ 646575, right lateral view of the holotype skull; B) MCZ 4086, labial view
Vindum, W.P. Tapondjou N., M.G. Davidson, H. Chapman, and D.C
Soltis, B. Thiers, and P. Chakrabarty. 2022.
Love Site (also known as LOVE BONE BED) University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality AL001 Location About 1 mile north of Archer, Alachua County, Florida, just off Route 241; 29.55° N, 82.52° W. Age Late Miocene Epoch; latest Clarendonian land mammal age About 9.5 to 9 million y
P. cromis Labridae, genus and species indeterminate Lagodon sp., cf.
Didelphis virginiana Quick Facts Common Name: Virginia opossum, North American opossum The family Didelphidae originated in the Cretaceous and today is most diverse in South America. Didelphis virginiana was the last South American mammal to disperse into temperate North America during t
A left dentary of Didelphis virginiana (UF 56221) in A) medial, B) left lateral,
Pristis pristis Although sawfish look somewhat like sharks, they are actually rays. They have an elongated snout or „rostrum“ that is studded with teeth that they swing from side to side to stun schooling fishes, crustaceans and invertebrates upon which they feed. Large tooth sawfishes are most c
than in P. pectinata.
Thecachampsa americana Quick Facts Common Name: North American false gharial Thecachampsa americana is a long-snouted crocodile that inhabited Florida from 13 to 6 million years ago. Thecachampsa americana grew to around 6 meters long, slightly larger than its closest living ancestor, the
j, jugal; l, lacrimal; m, maxilla; n, nasal; o, orbit; ocd, occipital condyle; p,
Defining taxon: first appearance of 17 mammalian genera dispersing more or less simultaneously from Eurasia (Tedford et al., 2004); among those found in Florida are the bear-dog Amphicyon, the hemicyonine bear Phoberocyon, the mustelid Leptarctus, the rhino Floridaceras, and the dromomerycid Aletome
MacFadden, B. J., J. I. Bloch, H. Evans, D. A. Foster, G. S. Morgan, A. F.
Inglis 1A University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality CI001 Location Inglis 1A is located about 1.5 miles (2.5 km) south of the town of Inglis, on the north bank of the Cross Florida Barge Canal west of US Highway 98, Citrus County, Florida. 29.01º N; 82.69º W. Age Early Pleistocen
Feranec, and B. J. MacFadden. 2009.
