Palmetto Fauna University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality PO005, along with over 85 individual mines or specific areas within mines. A list of mines and their locality numbers provided below. Location The Palmetto Fauna derives from the Central Florida Phosphate District, a region of commer
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Pseudemys williamsi Quick Facts Common Name: Williams’ cooter Pseudemys williamsi is a member of the family Emydidae, which includes the pond and box turtles. This species has been only been positively identified from two Florida localities. Pseudemys williamsi has a smooth shell and sh
Map of Florida, with highlights indicating counties where fossils of this species have
Anoxypristis cuspidata Although sawfish look similar to sharks, they are actually highly modified rays. The ‚teeth‘ on the rostrum, snout, are actually enlarged specialize denticles. The narrow sawfish differs from other sawfish species as it lacks rostral teeth at the base of the rostrum. Ord
Western Australia and Queensland have certain protections in place, but the narrow
Introduction and Definitions Land mammal ages (abbreviated LMAs) are intervals of geologic time characterized by a distinctive set of mammals (usually genera) for a particular geographic region (Lindsay, 2003). The geographic regions for the most commonly used LMAs are entire continents, so there a
Barnosky et al. (2014) proposed two new NALMAs for the Holocene Epoch, but these have
Alligator olseni Quick Facts Common Name: Olsen’s Alligator Adult Alligator olseni specimens are generally smaller than adult Alligator mississippiensis specimens, with few individuals exceeding more than seven to eight feet in length, while fossils of Alligator mississippiensis from Florid
Map of Florida, with highlights indicating counties where fossils of this species have
Without collections, we don’t have the ability to return to a specimen to examine
The „Active File“ The active file is one of the user created data files where labels are stored. This file is a Microsoft Visual FoxPro table composed of a file ending with the *.plw extension and another ending with *.fpt (e.g., MyPlabelFile.plw, MyPlabelFile.fpt). These two files are critical if
Collector first/last: print labels that have the collector name entered.
While fossil plant remains are nowhere as abundant as the remains of fossil vertebrates, or invertebrates in Florida, they are nonetheless, an important part of Florida’s fossil record. In fact, the fossil sea grasses found in the limestones of the Middle Eocene Avon Park Formation of south-central
Plant fossils, however, have not received much attention.
With some 7,000 islands and cays and a 7,000-year history of human habitation, the Caribbean Sea is practically synonymous with maritime travel. The very word “canoe� is derived from the term “kana:wa,� used by the Indigenous Arawakans of the Caribbean to describe their dugout vessels. Without cl
from the Lucayan Islands — The Bahamas plus the Turks and Caicos Islands — have
Taming a wild plant may not sound too ominous, unless you are a tiny moth and the plant is 8 feet tall and poisonous. Lepidopterist Andrei Sourakov with the Florida Museum of Natural History has been studying ornate bella moths, Utetheisa ornatrix, since 2010. His March 2015 study appearing in th
been found to have DNA damaging effects.� Sourakov said species of rattlebox
