Jefferson County, Florida paleontological sites
The Jefferson County, Florida paleontological sites are assemblages of Mid-Miocene to Late Pleistocene vertebrates from Jefferson County, Florida, United States.Age
Era: Neogene
Period: Miocene to Pleistocene, ~23.03 Mya—11,000 years ago..
Faunal stage: Clarendonian through early RancholabreanSites
Ashville site Time period: ~13.5—12.7 Mya.
Aucilla River site Time period: ~126,000—11,000 years ago. The Aucilla site specimens were discovered by amateur paleontologist Dr. Richard Ohmes of Bremerton, Washington in 1969.
Coordinates:
Wacissa River site Time period: ~126,000—11,000 years ago. Collected by R. Alexon, B. Mathen, R. Gingery in October 1981; in shallow water. Specimens reposited in the Florida Museum of Natural History.
Coordinates:
Ashland site = ASH. Aucilla River site = ARS. Wacissa River site = WRS.Reptiles
- Emydidae WRS
- Geochelone ARS
- Alligator WRS
Birds
- Grus americana ARS
Mammals
- Artiodactyla ASH, ARS
- Bison antiquus WRS
- Calippus proplacidus ASH
- Camelops ARS
- Equus ARS, WRS
- Hemiauchenia WRS
- Hippotherium ASH
- Megalonyx ARS
- Mammut ARS
- Menoceratinae
- Tapirus ARS
- Odocoileus virginianus WRS
- Palaeolama WRS
