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.

Sites
Coordinates: 28.7°N, -81.5°W
 * 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).

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)