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Amarasinghe, P., N. Barve, H. Kathriarachchi, B. Loiselle, and N.
Amarasinghe, P., N. Barve, H. Kathriarachchi, B. Loiselle, and N.
Amebelodon britti Quick Facts Common Name: Britt’s shovel-tusker Weighing as much as 22,000 pounds (about the size of a large mammoth), Amebelodon britti is one of the largest land mammals to have ever lived in North America. Amebelodon britti had very large upper and lower tusks; the lo
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Gunn Farm Mine University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality GD006 Location Gunn Farm Mine is located about 7 miles (11.2 km) north of Quincy, Gadsden County, Florida, to the east of Willacoochee Creek and just south of the Florida-Georgia state line. 30.70º N; 84.54º W. Age Middle M
P. minutus, and the hedgehog Lanthanotherium (Bryant, 1991).
Updated and edited by Roger W. Portell The following bibliography represents a selection of peer-reviewed contributions by present and former staff of the Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville. Citations are not necessarily in order by date published and do not repre
VACANT Kurten, B. 1966.
Pristis pectinata The sawfish derives its name from its elongated, blade-like snout, that is studded with „teeth“. While they look similar to sharks, they are actually highly derived rays. The smalltooth sawfish is one of five species of sawfishes found worldwide. Historically, the species had a
In addition, the pectoral fins of P. pectinata are smaller than those of P. pristis
Keith Willmott Curator of Lepidoptera McGuire Center for Lepidoptera &Â Biodiversity Florida Museum of Natural History 3215 Hull Road Gainesville, FL 32611-2710 352-273-2012 kwillmott@flmnh.ufl.edu I work on Neotropical butterfly systematics in the broadest sense of the word – my in
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Chase Billingsley Kimmel, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate E-mail: cbkimmel@ufl.edu  Current research: As a postdoctoral associate, most of my research revolves around conservation and restoration of pollinators and their habitat. The goal of much of my research is to examine how land m
B. Kimmel, A. Mortensen, D. Schmehl. 2020.
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MacFadden, B. J. 2019. Broader Impacts of Science on Society.
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.