Desmodus stocki Quick Facts Common Name: Stock’s vampire bat With a range extending to Virginia, this species lived further north than any other vampire bat, fossil or living. Desmodus stocki likely weighed about 50% more than the living vampire Desmodus rotundus. Its large, sharp canin
Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 101(4):912-928.
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
Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 322B, 346 pp. Holman, J.
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
Carnegie Institute of Washington, Publication 422, 232 p. Turner, A. 1996.
Archaeohippus blackbergi Quick Facts Common Name: Blackberg’s dwarf horse Archaeohippus is a genus of three-toed horses that lived 19 to 13 million years ago in North America. Two of the five known species lived in Florida. Archaeohippus blackbergi was small, weighing approximately between 5
Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 37:1-20. Mihlbachler, M.
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
the jaguar ranged much further to the north and east, with records from Nebraska, Washington
Teleoceras proterum Quick Facts Common Name: Archer short-legged rhino The mounted skeleton on display at the Florida Museum of Natural History (see image) was constructed as part of a „live“ public display during the late 1970s using fossils from both the McGehee Farm and Love Bone Bed loc
The Mixson’s sample is divided between the National Museum of Natural History in Washington
Flora and Ecology Barker, Henry D. and William S. Dardeau. 1930. Flore d’Haiti : clé et description des ordres – familles et genres des Spermatophytes d’Haiti avec la liste de la plupart des espèces. Publié sous la direction du Service Technique du Département de l’Agriculture et de l’Enseignem
South-East Consortium for International Development, Washington, DC. ix, 418 p.
Lamna ditropis These sharks are often mistake for white sharks because they look very similar, but the salmon shark is dark blue-gray to black over most of its body, except for its pale underside which often has dark blotches on it that the white sharks do not. They can get to 10 feet long (almos
Pacific perform a similar north-south migration in the waters off California, Oregon, Washington
* St. Augustine site numbers follow protocols established by the Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board in 1966, which include the „SA“ city designation, followed by the City of St. Augustine block and lot designations. ACOSTA-VILLALLONGA 8-SA-13-5-6-7 Deagan, Kathleen 1974 Test Excav
Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. Pp. 261-82.
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