While standing next to a shelf filled with thousands of aging reel-to-reel and other tape recordings of bird sounds collected over the past 40 years, Florida Museum of Natural History ornithologist Tom Webber inspected an especially fragile reel from the 1960s. “Eventually, even the magnetic plas
While at Occidental College in Los Angeles, he began a comprehensive collection of
Ciconia maltha Quick Facts Common Names: Asphalt stork or La Brea stork A relatively large species of Ciconia, with a height of over 4 feet (1.5 m) and a wingspan up to 9 feet (3 m) across. While many large mammals became extinct at the end of the Pleistocene in North America, Ciconia ma
The type locality is Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles County, California (Miller, 1910
Imagine a crocodile built like a greyhound — that’s a sebecid. Standing tall, with some species reaching 20 feet in length, they dominated South American landscapes after the extinction of dinosaurs until about 11 million years ago. Or at least, that’s what paleontologists thought, until they began
the tip of the iceberg.� Jorge Vélez-Juarbe of the Natural History Museum of Los
Primary Type Specimens in the Vertebrate Paleontology Collection Chondrichthyes Osteichthyes Amphibia Reptilia Aves Mammalia Complete reference citations can be found here. Chondrichthyes Eoplinthicus yazooensis Cappetta, H., and G. Stringer. 2002. Tertiary Research 21
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Coleman 2A University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality SM001 Location Coleman 2A is located about 2 miles (3.2 km) northeast of Sumterville, between US Highway 301 and the Federal Correctional Complex Of Coleman in a former limestone quarry operated by Dixie Lime and Stone Corporation, Sumte
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Neohipparion eurystyle Quick Facts Common Name: none This moderate-sized hipparionine horse ranged from central Mexico to Nebraska and east to central Florida. Neohipparion eurystyle and the closely related, larger species Neohipparion gidleyi (not known from Florida) represent the culminati
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Haile 15A University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality AL032 Location Location: in an abandoned limestone quarry in western Alachua County about 2.9 miles (4.7 km) northeast of the town of Newberry; 29.7° N, 82.6° W. The site was destroyed by mining operations and no longer exists. Age
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Epicyon haydeni Quick Facts Common Name: none About the size of a grizzly bear, this species is the largest canid ever known. Its known range extended across the United States from Florida to California and Oregon. Age Range Middle to late Miocene epoch; Clarendonian to early Hem
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Defining taxon: first appearance of the ground sloth Pliometanastes (Tedford et al., 2004) Basis of name: Wood et al. (1941) based the name on what they termed the “Hemphill member of the Ogallala [Formation].� This stratigraphic unit was originally named the “Hemphill Beds� by Reed and Longnecke
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