CONVENTO DE SAN FRANCISCO Council, R. Bruce 1975 Archeology of the Convento de San Francisco. Unpublished MA thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida. Goggin, John 1968 Spanish majolica in the New World. Yale University Publications in Anthropology 72. Yale University Press,
2 PUE 2 Mexico Convento 9949 1524-1800 Cholula,puebla 3 PUE 3 Mexico Historic Indian
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
The records of smalltooth sawfishes that had purportedly been recorded in the Indian
Smilodon fatalis Quick Facts Common Names: saber-tooth cat (or sabertooth cat), sabercat Smilodon fatalis had a body mass ranging from 350 to 600 pounds, similar in weight to the modern Siberian tiger. Fossils of Smilodon fatalis are not particularly common in Florida, but there have been ma
Cutler Hammock De Soto County—Peace River 2 Hardee County—Peace River 11 Indian
Panthera onca Quick Facts Common Name: jaguar Fossils of jaguars in Florida are much more common than those of other contemporaneous large felids, such as the American lion and the sabertooths Smilodon fatalis and Dinobastis serus. The Pleistocene jaguars of North America were much large
River 11 Hendry County-La Belle Highway Pit Hillsborough County—Apollo Beach Indian
Stegostoma fasciatum This mollusk crunching coastal carpetshark was misidentified for years by taxonomists. Due to the black and white stripes of the pups eventually turning to spotted adults, the two different life stages were thought to be differing species. Zebra sharks are popular attractions
Genetic data has revealed two distinct subpopulations: The Indian– Southeast Asian
Carcharhinus obscurus Dusky sharks are wide-ranging coastal and pelagic species that prefer temperate to tropical waters. They are large-bodied, typically grey with dusky margins on the fins. They are an important fisheries resource, targeted and taken as bycatch around the world. Their fins are
southwestern Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Pacific Ocean around Australia and in the Indian
Melbourne University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality BR002 Location Western part of the city of Melbourne, Brevard County, Florida, at about 28.1° N, 80.6° W. Three separate localities were reported by Gidley and Loomis (1926), of which two produced almost all of the fossils in museum colle
The other two were the Vero Canal Site in Indian River County and the Seminole Field
Sphyrna mokarran The great hammerhead is the largest of the hammerheads in the family Sphyrnidae. The “hammer head�, or cephalophoil, is straight and square relative to the major axis of the body. The body is stout and classically shark-shaped with a markedly tall, curved, first dorsal fin. T
Distribution of the great hammerhead includes the Indian Ocean and the Indo-Pacific
Isurus oxyrinchus The shortfin mako is considered the fastest shark in the world, able to reach burst swimming speeds of up to 43 mph (70 km h-1) (Diez et al. 2015). This classically shaped shark is hydrodynamically efficient with a pointed snout, triangular dorsal fin and large and a crescen
Norway to South Africa, including the Mediterranean and it is found throughout the Indian
Carcharhinus brevipinna The spinner shark is a slender, gray-bronze shark named for its distinctive aerial „spinning“ behavior at the surface. When feeding, spinner sharks will often swim through schools of bait fish, spinning along their longitudinal axis, snapping at fish as they move through t
copepod that has been reported to infect the gills of spinner sharks captured in the Indian
