Montbrook Site University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality LV070 Location South of Williston, Levy County, Florida Age Latest Miocene or earliest Pliocene epochs; late Hemphillian (Hemphillian 4 interval) land mammal age About 5.5 to 5 million years old (estimated) Basis of
The site was gridded into 1 X 1 meter squares and excavated with standard hand tools
Xenosmilus hodsonae Quick Facts Common Name: Cookie-cutter Cat A lion-sized, sabertoothed cat known only from Florida. A mounted skeleton is on permanent display at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Age Range Early Pleistocene Epoch; late Blancan to early Irvingtonian land mam
The radius and hand bones are also curved in such a way to suggest that the animal
Carcharhinus longimanus This large shark is readily recognized by its long white-tipped paddle-like pectoral fins and rounded first dorsal fin (Compagno et al. 2005). Solitary and slow moving, it prefers the upper layers of deep-water areas, where it is an opportunistic hunter (Baum et al. 2015).
Upper and lower teeth, left-hand side, B. Sixth upper tooth, C.
Lab members (current and recent past) in bold Godden, G.T.*, Crowl, A.A.*, Patten, S.R., Abu, P., Hall, S., Johnston, M.O., Schemske, D.W., Barger, T.W., Pérez-Pérez, M.A., Herlihy, C.R., Delph, L.F., Blackwood, C.B., Case, A.L+., Cellinese, N+. 2025. Population-level phylogenomic analysis yields
Crowl, A., Visger, C., Mansion, G., Hand, R., Wu, H.
Editor’s Note: This article is an excerpt from the „Ancient Floridians“ chapter of „Florida’s Indians from Ancient Times to the Present,“ by Jerald T. Milanich, published by University Press of Florida in 1998. Since at least the 1920s, residents of Florida have been finding Indian artifacts
Some of the smaller pieces were smooth, and shaped as though made by hand but they
“I did hear about your hopefully temporary transfer into higher administrative realms. My only advice is to ditch it as soon as possible.� Noted evolutionary biologist and author Stephen Jay Gould typed up the preceding exhortation in a letter he wrote to Doug Jones in 1996, referencing his recent a
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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
data analysis is to transform information into a form that fits the question at hand
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Mangroves Support: Microorganisms Algae Invertebrates Fish Reptiles and Amphibians Birds Mammals Microorganisms Mangroves are an important part of estuarine food webs, producing large amounts of leaf litter. Leaves drop from the mangrove trees and are quickly decompose
On the other hand, the American crocodile is quite rare, relying heavily on mangrove
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