Orange County, Florida paleontological sites
# Orange County, Florida paleontological sites

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

## 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

* Rock Spring site (Pleistocene). Time period: ~126,000—11,000 thousand years ago. Specimens were collected by H. J. Gut, J. Mann, J. Todd, G. Lintner, circa 1939. The site was recorded as bone-bearing argillaceous sandstone overlaying Ocala Limestone containing macrofossils. "The bones are well mineralized, and most are unworn; frequent occurrence in association of bones from what appear to be the same individual indicates that the material has not been reworked." (Glen E. Woolfenden 1959).

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

## Specimens

### Birds

* Meleagris gallopavo (wild turkey)
* Mergus serrator (red-breasted merganser)
* Anas fulvigula (mottled duck)
* Anas crecca carolinensis (green-winged teal)
* Anas discors (blue-winged teal)
* Anas acuta (northern pintail duck)
* Aix sponsa (wood duck)
* Aythya collaris (ring-necked duck)
* Aythya affinis (lesser scaup duck)
* Gavia immer (great northern loon)
* Podiceps auritus (horned grebe)
* Podilymbus podiceps (pied-billed grebe)
* Nannopterum auritum (double-crested cormorant)
* Anhinga anhinga (snakebird)
* Ciconia maltha (extinct stork)
* Ajaia ajaja (roseate spoonbill)
* Botaurus lentiginosus (American bittern)
* Ardea herodias (great blue heron)
* Ardea alba (great egret)
* Nycticorax nycticorax (black-crowned night heron)
* Aramus guarauna (limpkin)
* Grus canadensis (sandhill crane)
* Fulica minor (coot)
* Limnodromus scolopaceus (long-billed dowitcher)
* Gallinula galeata (common gallinule)
* Larus (gull)
* Pandion haliaetus (osprey)
* Buteo jamaicensis (red-tailed hawk)
* Haliaetus leucocephalus (sea eagle)
* Strix varia (barred owl)
* Ectopistes migratorius (passenger pigeon)
* Megaceryle alcyon (belted kingfisher)
* Dendrocopos borealis (a woodpecker)
* Corvus ossifragus (fish crow)
* Cardinalis cardinalis (northern cardinal)

### Mammals

* Paramylodon (ground sloth)
* Dasypus bellus (armadillo)
* Holmesina septentrionalis (armadillo-like Cingulata)
* Trichechus manatus Linnaeus (sea cow)
* Mammuthus (mammoth)
* Mammut americanum (American mastodon)
* Tapirus veroensis (tapir)
* Equus (horse)
* Mormoops megalophylla (bat)
* Myotis austroriparius (bat)
* Tremarctos floridanus (Florida cave bear)
* Ursus americanus (American black bear)
* Procyon lotor (raccoon)
* Aenocyon dirus (dire wolf)
* Urocyon cinereoargenteus (gray fox)
* Leopardus amnicola (margay)
* Puma concolor (puma)
* Mylohyus nasutus (peccary)
* Platygonus compressus Leconte (peccary)
* Odocoileus virginianus (deer)
* Bison (bison)
* Tursiops (bottlenose dolphin)
* Palaeolama mirifica (camel)
* Blarina carolinensis (shrew)
* Sylvilagus (rabbit)
* Thomomys orientalis (gopher)
* Geomys pinetis (pocket gopher)
* Castor (North American beaver)
* Reithrodontomys (harvest mouse)
