Orange County, Florida paleontological sites

The Orange County paleontological sites are assemblages of Late Pleistocene vertebrates occurring in Orange County, Florida.

Orange County during the Miocene with most of the county as dry land.
Florida during the Late Pleistocene 2 million to 10,000 years ago.

Age

Era: Neogene
Period: Pleistocene
Faunal stage: Rancholabrean 126,000—11,000 years ago, calculates to a period of approximately 0.115 million years.

Sites

Coordinates: 28°42′N 81°30′W / 28.7°N 81.5°W / 28.7; -81.5

Specimens

Birds

Mammals

Further reading

References

  1. S. D. Webb. 1974. Chronology of Florida Pleistocene mammals. In S. D. Webb (ed.), Pleistocene Mammals of Florida 5-31
  2. Paleobiology Database : Rock Springs Collection
  3. A Pleistocene Avifauna from Rock Spring, Florida, Glen E. Woolfenden
  4. Glen E. Woolfenden, Professor Emeritus at the University of South Florida
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