Haile Quarry site
The Haile Quarry or Haile sites are an Early Miocene and Pleistocene assemblage of vertebrate fossils located in the Haile quarries, Alachua County, northern Florida. The assemblage was discovered during phosphate mining, which began in the late 1940s. Haile sites are found in the Alachua Formation. Two sites within the Ocala Limestone yielded Upper Eocene Valvatida and mollusks.
University of Florida and Florida Museum of Natural History paleontologists numbered the Haile fossil sites with Arabic and Roman numbers and letters in order to define locations more distinctly. UF scientists used Roman numbering and the FLMNH scientists used Arabic.Numbered Haile sites
- V/XIXA aka Haile 5A, 19A
- 5B Miocene
- 6A.
- 7C.
- 12B.
- XVA aka 15A.
- 16A.
- 21A.
- ID.
- VIIA.
- VIIIA.
- XIB.
- XIIIA.
- XIIIB.
- XIVA.
- XIXD.
- IVB.
Late Pleistocene Haile sites: 7C, 15A, 16A, and 21A.Fish
- Carcharodon auriculatus
Amphibians/Reptiles
- Bufo
- Coluber constrictor
- Emydidae
- †Gavialosuchus
- Hesperotestudo crassiscutata
- Deirochelys
- Micrurus fulvius
- Ranidae
- †Sphenodontia
- Terrapene carolina
Birds
- Anatidae indet
- †Aizenogyps toomeyae
- Anhinga grande
- Ceryle torquata
- Motmotidae
- Phalacrocorax
Mammals
Carnivores
- Procyon
Canidae
- †Borophagus
- Canidae
- *†Canis armbrusteri
- *†Canis edwardii
- *†Canis dirus
- *Canis rufus
- †Epicyon haydeni
- Urocyon cinereoargenteus
Bears
- †Arctodus pristinus
- †Tremarctos floridanus
Feliformia
- †Homotherium
- Lynx rufus
- †Panthera onca
- †Smilodon gracilis
Mustelids
- Conepatus leuconotus
- Mephitis mephitis
- Mustela frenata
- †Satherium piscinarium
- Spilogale putorius
- Trigonictis cookii
Herbivores
Even-toed ungulates
- †Aepycamelus
- Bison latifrons
- †Camelidae
- †Gelocidae
- †Hemiauchenia macrocephala
- †Mylohyus floridanus
- †Odocoileus virginianus
- †Palaeolama mirifica
- †Platygonus, P. compressus, P. vetus
- †Yumaceras hamiltoni
Odd-toed ungulates
- †Aphelops
- †Calippus, C. elachistus, C. hondurensis
- †Dolichohippus
- †Equus sp,. E. fraternus, E. leidyi
- †Tapirus, T. haysii
- †Dasypus bellus
- †Hippotherium, H. ingenuum, H. plicatile
- †Nannippus, N. peninsulatus, N. westoni
- †Neohipparion trampasense
- †Protohippus gidleyi
- †Pseudhipparion skinneri
- †Teleoceras, T. proterum
Proboscidea
- †Cuvieronius tropicus
- †Gomphotheriidae
Xenarthra
- Dasypus bellus
- †Eremotherium, E. eomigrans
- †Glossotherium chapadmalense
- †Glyptotherium arizonae
- †Holmesina floridanus, H. olmesina, H. septentrionalis
- †Pachyarmatherium leiseyi
- †Megalonyx, M. leptostomus, M. wheatlyi
- †Paramylodon harlani
- †Pliometanastes
Bats
- Myotis austroriparius
- Desmodus, D. archaeodaptes, D. stocki
- Lasiurus intermedius
- Pipistrellus subflavus
Rodents
- Atopomys texensis
- Castor canadensis
- Cryptopterus webbi
- Didelphis virginiana
- Erethizon, E. dorsatum, E. poyeri
- Geomys pinetis
- Microtus australis
- Microtus pinetorum
- †Mylagaulus kinseyi
- †Neochoerus, N. aesopi
- Neofiber alleni
- Neotoma
- Neotoma floridana
- Ochrotomys nuttalli
- Orthogeomys propinetis
- Oryzomys palustris
- Peromyscus
- Peromyscus gossypinus
- Peromyscus polionotus
- Podomys floridana, P. gossypinus
- Pronotolagus
- Reithrodontomys H. humulis
- Sciurus carolinensis
- Sigmodon, S. bakeri, S. hispidus, S. libitinus, S. minor
- Spermophilus
- Sylvilagus, S. webbi
- Sylvilagus floridanus
- Synaptomys, S. australis, S. morgani
- Zapodidae
Moles and Shrews
- Blarina
- Blarina carolinensis
- Cryptotis parva
- Scalopus aquaticus
- Sorex longirostris
Unclassified mammal
- Petauria
Sea mammals
- Cynthiacetus maxwelli. ~37.2—33.9 Mya.
- Zygorhiza
