Amblyraja radiata These cool-water skates have rounded diamond shaped pectoral disks with stout tails, usually muddy brown on top, and white underneath. They are named for the scattered thorny denticles along their spines, edges of pectoral fins, and tails, interspersed with smaller ‚prickles‘. T
Males, on the other hand, lose most of the thorns on the pectoral fins except along
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has designated 190 miles of streams and rivers in Florida and Georgia as critical habitat for a rare species of freshwater mussel once thought to be extinct. The new ruling, which went into effect Aug. 2, outlines protective measures for the Suwannee moccasinshell,
To find them, biologists have to slowly sift through sediment by hand.
Triaenodon obesus The Whitetip Reef Shark is a smaller, greyish brown shark with a distinctive white tip on its dorsal and caudal fins. (Compagno, 2005) It prefers caves and coral reefs, often be found resting by the bottom of the ocean by day and hunting by night (Compagno, 2005). Unlike many sh
The shark has a naturally placid nature to where they can be hand-fed (Fitzpatrick
Tremarctos floridanus Quick Facts Common Name: Florida spectacled bear Much more common as a fossil in Florida than the living black bear. Thought to be primarily a herbivore like the living South American spectacled bear. Sometimes called the „Florida cave bear“ but they are not clos
Ursine bears, on the other hand, have only one masseteric fossa (Figure 2B) on their
Southeastern Florida Archaeopedology From 1993 to 2007 Florida archaeopedology research was conducted by Sylvia Scudder, now retired. Scudder’s studies employ analyses of chemical and grain-size characteristics to answer questions about site configuration and settlement patterns, environm
east coast of the Gulf of Mexico (Figure 5-1), features monumental earthworks, hand-dug
Defining taxon: first appearance of the ground sloth Pliometanastes (Tedford et al., 2004) Basis of name: Wood et al. (1941) based the name on what they termed the “Hemphill member of the Ogallala [Formation].� This stratigraphic unit was originally named the “Hemphill Beds� by Reed and Longnecke
Hemingfordian Florida Fossil Permits Vertebrate Paleontology Collection Articulated left hand
Many species live in seagrasses: Bacteria and Fungi Bacteria and fungi are responsible for the decomposition of dead seagrass blades. Microfauna and meiofauna colonize the dead seagrass blades, feeding on the bacteria and fungi as well as on the dissolved organic matter released from the decompo
On the other hand, species occurring over seagrasses only during the day include
Montbrook Site University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality LV070 Location South of Williston, Levy County, Florida Age Latest Miocene or earliest Pliocene epochs; late Hemphillian (Hemphillian 4 interval) land mammal age About 5.5 to 5 million years old (estimated) Basis of
The site was gridded into 1 X 1 meter squares and excavated with standard hand tools
Xenosmilus hodsonae Quick Facts Common Name: Cookie-cutter Cat A lion-sized, sabertoothed cat known only from Florida. A mounted skeleton is on permanent display at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Age Range Early Pleistocene Epoch; late Blancan to early Irvingtonian land mam
The radius and hand bones are also curved in such a way to suggest that the animal
Carcharhinus longimanus This large shark is readily recognized by its long white-tipped paddle-like pectoral fins and rounded first dorsal fin (Compagno et al. 2005). Solitary and slow moving, it prefers the upper layers of deep-water areas, where it is an opportunistic hunter (Baum et al. 2015).
Upper and lower teeth, left-hand side, B. Sixth upper tooth, C.
