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1	Andersen, L. 2001. Paynes Prairie: a history of the great savanna. Pineapple Press, Inc., Sarasota, Florida, USA. 156pp.
2	Auffenberg, W. 1954. Additional specimens of Gavialosuchus americanus (Sellards) from a new locality in Florida. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 17:185–209.
3	Auffenberg, W. 1955. Glass lizards (Ophisaurus) in the Pleistocene and Pliocene of Florida. Herpetologica 11:133–136.
4	Auffenberg, W. 1956. A study of the fossil snakes of Florida. Dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 267pp.
5	Auffenberg, W. 1956. Additional records of Pleistocene lizards from Florida. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 19:157–167.
6	Auffenberg, W. 1956. Remarks on some Miocene anurans from Florida, with a description of a new species of Hyla. Breviora 52:1–11, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
7	Auffenberg, W. 1957. A new species of Bufo from the Pliocene of Florida. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 20:14–20.
8	Auffenberg, W. 1957. Notes on fossil crocodilians from southeastern United States. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 20:107–113.
9	Auffenberg, W. 1957. The status of the turtle Macroclemys floridana Hay. Herpetologica 13:123–126.
10	Auffenberg, W. 1958. Fossil turtles of the genus Terrapene in Florida. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 3:53–92.
11	Auffenberg, W. 1959. A Pleistocene hibernaculum, with remarks on a second complete box turtle skull from Florida. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 22:49–53.
12	Auffenberg, W. 1963. Fossil testudinine turtles of Florida genera Geochelone and Floridemys. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 7:53–97.
13	Auffenberg, W. 1963. The fossil snakes of Florida. Tulane Studies in Zoology 10:131–216.
14	Auffenberg, W. 1964. The Reddick I site, a Pleistocene fissure and cave complex. Pages 31–50 in W. Auffenberg, et al., editors. Guidebook 1964 field trip in central Florida. Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
15	Auffenberg, W. 1967. Fossil crocodilians of Florida. Florida State Museum, The Plaster Jacket No. 5:1–6.
16	Auffenberg, W. 1967. Further notes on fossil box turtles of Florida. Copeia 1967:319–325.
17	Auffenberg, W. 1967. The fossil snakes of Florida. Florida State Museum, The Plaster Jacket No. 3:1–7.
18	Auffenberg, W. 1972. Fossil turtles. Florida State Museum, The Plaster Jacket No. 16:1–10.
19	Auffenberg, W. 1974. Checklist of fossil land tortoises (Testudinidae). Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 18:121–251.
20	Auffenberg, W. 1981. Florida environments and their herpetofaunas. Part II: changes in the environment. Florida State Museum, Florida Herpetologist No. 3. 28pp.
21	Auffenberg, W. A. 1988. A new species of Geochelone (Testudinata: Testudinidae) from the Pleistocene of Florida (U.S.A.). Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 31(11-27):591–604.
22	Barbour, T., and H. C. Stetson. 1931. A revision of the Pleistocene Terrapene of Florida. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 72:295–299.
23	Blaney, R. M. 1971. An annotated checklist and biogeographic analysis of the insular herpetofauna of the Apalachicola Region, Florida. Herpetologica 27:406–430.
24	Boyles, J. M. 1966. Zoogeography of the herpetofauna of central Florida. Dissertation, University of Alabama, Alabama, USA. 164pp.
25	Brach, V. 1976. Habits and food of Anolis equestris in Florida. Copeia 1976:187–189.
26	Brattstrom, B. H. 1953. Records of Pleistocene reptiles and amphibians from Florida. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 16:243–248.
27	Brattstrom, B. H. 1954. The fossil pit-viper (Reptilia: Crotalidae) of North America. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 12:31–46.
28	Brown, R. C. 1988. Florida's fossils: guide to location, identification and enjoyment. Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, USA. 208pp.
29	Carr, A. 1994. An introduction to the herpetology of Florida. Pages 84–90 in M. H. Carr, editor. A naturalist in Florida: a celebration of Eden. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, Connecticut, USA.
30	Christman, S. P. 1974. The supposed giant extinct rattlesnake of Florida. Florida State Museum, The Plaster Jacket No. 27:1–7.
31	Christman, S. P. 1975. The status of the extinct rattlesnake, Crotalus giganteus. Copeia 1975:43–47.
32	Clausen, C. J., A.. D. Cohen, C. Emiliani, J. A. Holman, and J. J. Stipp. 1979. Little Salt Spring, Florida: a unique underwater site. Science 203:609–614.
33	Converse, H. W., Jr. 1973. A Pleistocene vertebrate fauna from Palm Beach County, Florida. Florida State Museum, The Plaster Jacket No. 21:1–12.
34	Dobie, J. L. 1968. A new turtle species of the genus Macroclemys (Chelydridae) from the Florida Pliocene. Tulane Studies in Zoology and Botany 15:59–63.
35	Dodd, C. K., Jr., and G. S. Morgan. 1992. Fossil sea turtles from the early Pliocene Bone Valley Formation, central Florida. Journal of Herpetology 26:1–8.
36	Dodd, C. K., Jr., and G. S. Morgan. 1995. Fossil sea turtles from the early Pliocene bone valley formation, central Florida. Page 176 (abstract) in J. I. Richardson and T. H. Richardson, compilers. Proceedings of the 12th Annual Workshop on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-361.
37	Dodd, C. K., Jr. 2001. North American box turtles: a natural history. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, USA. 231pp.
38	Ernst, C. H., J. C. Wilgenbusch, T. P. Boucher, and S. W. Sekscienski. 1998. Morphometrics of the fossil box turtle, Terrapene innoxia Hay 1916, from Florida. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 3:99–102.
39	Estes, R. 1963. Early Miocene salamanders and lizards from Florida. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 26:234–256.
40	Ferguson, G. R. 1976. The Weekiwachee site Hernando County, Florida. Florida Anthropologist 29:69–83.
41	Frazier, M. K., and R. Franz. 1978. Paleoecology of the late Pleistocene, Orange Lake IIA local fauna, Marion County, Florida. ASB Bulletin 25:74 (abstract).
42	Gilmore, C. W. 1923. On fossil turtles from the Pleistocene of Florida. Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum 71:1–10.
43	Goin, C. J., and W. Auffenberg. 1955. The fossil salamanders of the family Sirenidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 113:497–514.
44	Goin, C. J. 1958. Comments upon the origin of the herpetofauna of Florida. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 21:61–70.
45	Gut, H. J., and C. E. Ray. 1963. The Pleistocene vertebrate fauna of Reddick, Florida. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 26:315–328.
46	Hay, O. P. 1908. The fossil turtles of North America. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication No. 75, Washington, D.C., USA. 568pp.
47	Hay, O. P. 1916. Descriptions of some Floridian vertebrates, belonging mostly to the Pleistocene. Annual Report of the Florida Geological Survey 8:39–76.
48	Hay, O. P. 1917. Vertebrata mostly from Stratum No. 3 at Vero, Florida; together with descriptions of a new species. Annual Report Florida Geological Survey 9:43–68.
49	Hay, O. P. 1923. The Pleistocene of North America and its vertebrated animals from the states east of the Mississippi River and from the Canadian provinces east of longitude 95o. Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C., USA. 499pp.
50	Hirsch, K. F. 1996. Parataxonomic classification of fossil chelonian and gecko eggs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16:752–762.
51	Holman, J. A. 1957. Vertebrates from the Pleistocene of Williston, Florida. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 87pp.
52	Holman, J. A. 1958. The Pleistocene herpetofauna of Saber-tooth Cave, Citrus County, Florida. Copeia 1958:276–280.
53	Holman, J. A. 1959. A Pleistocene herpetofauna near Orange Lake, Florida. Herpetologica 15:121–125.
54	Holman, J. A. 1959. Amphibians and reptiles from the Pleistocene (Illinoian) of Williston, Florida. Copeia 1959:96–102.
55	Holman, J. A. 1961. A new hylid from the lower Miocene of Florida. Copeia 1961:354–355.
56	Holman, J. A. 1962. Additional records of Florida Pleistocene amphibians and reptiles. Herpetologica 18:115–119.
57	Holman, J. A. 1976. Paleoclimatic implications of "ecologically incompatible" herpetological species (late Pleistocene: southern United States). Herpetologica 32:290–295.
58	Holman, J. A. 1978. The late Pleistocene herpetofauna of Devil's Den Sinkhole, Levy County, Florida. Herpetologica 34:228–237.
59	Holman, J. A. 1981. A review of North American Pleistocene snakes. Publications of the Museum Michigan State University, Paleontological Series 1:261–306.
60	Holman, J. A. 1995. Pleistocene amphibians and reptiles in North America. Oxford University Press, New York, New York, USA. 243pp.
61	Holman, J. A. 1996. The large Pleistocene (Sangamonian) herpetofauna of the Williston IIIA Site, north-central Florida. Herpetological Natural History 4:35–47.
62	Holman, J. A. 1999. Early Oligocene (Whitneyan) snakes from Florida (USA), the second oldest colubrid snakes in the North America. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 42:447–454.
63	Holman, J. A. 2000. Fossil snakes of North America: origin, evolution, distribution, paleoecology. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, USA. 357pp.
64	Holman, J. A., and D. L. Harrison. 2000. Early Oligocene (Whitneyan) snakes from Florida (USA), a unique booid. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 43:127–134.
65	Hulbert, R. C., and G. S. Morgan. 1989. Stratigraphy, paleoecology, and vertebrate fauna of the Leisley Shell Pit local fauna, early Pleistocene (Irvingtonian) of southwestern Florida. Paper of the Florida Paleontologist No. 2. 19pp.
66	Hutchison, J. H. 1985. Pterosphenus cf. P. schucherti Lucas (Squamata, Palaeophidae) from the Late Eocene of peninsular Florida. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 5(1):20–23.
67	Jackson, C. G., Jr. 1964. The status of Deirochelys floridana Hay with comments on the fossil history of the genus. Tulane Studies in Geology 2:103–106.
68	Jackson, C. G., Jr. 1974. The status of Trachemys jarmani Hay with clarification of the fossil record of Deirochelys. Copeia 1974:536–537.
69	Jackson, D. R. 1975. A Pleistocene Graptemys from the Santa Fe River of Florida. Herpetologica 31:213–219.
70	Jackson, D. R. 1976. The status of the Pliocene turtles Pseudemys caelata Hay and Chrysemys carri Rose and Weaver. Copeia 1976:655–659.
71	Jackson, D. R. 1977. The fossil freshwater emydid turtles of Florida. Dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 128pp.
72	Jackson, D. R. 1978. Evolution and fossil record of the chicken turtle Deirochelys, with a re-evaluation of the genus. Tulane Studies in Zoology and Botany 20:35–55.
73	Jackson, D. R. 1988. A re-examination of fossil turtles of the genus Trachemys (Testudines: Emydidae). Herpetologica 44:317–325.
74	Lambert, W. D. 1992. The fauna and paleoecology of the Moss Acres Racetrack Site (Late Early Hemphillian, Late Miocene) in northcentral Florida. Florida Paleontological Society Newsletter 9(4):13–14.
75	Lawson, R. 1985. Molecular studies of Thamnophiine snakes. Dissertation, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. 183pp.
76	Lawson, R. 1987. Molecular studies of Thamnophiine snakes: 1. The phylogeny of the genus Nerodia. Journal of Herpetology 21:140–157.
77	LeBuff, C. R., Jr. 1990. The loggerhead turtle in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Caretta Research, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA. 216pp.
78	Levin, T. 1991. Arrival of an ancient alligator. Reptile & Amphibian Magazine (March–April):22–23.
79	Lynch, J. D. 1964. Additional hylid and leptodactylid remains from the Pleistocene of Texas and Florida. Herpetologica 20:141–142.
80	Lynch, J. D. 1965. The Pleistocene amphibians of Pit II, Arredondo, Florida. Copeia 1965:72–77.
81	Mattison, C. 1996. Rattler! Blandford, London, United Kingdom. 144pp.
82	Meylan, P. A. 1980. The squamate reptiles of the Inglis IA fauna (Irvingtonian: Citrus County, Florida). M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 154pp.
83	Meylan, P. A. 1982. The squamate reptiles of the Inglis IA fauna (Irvingtonian: Citrus County, Florida). Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 27(3):1–85.
84	Meylan, P. A. 1983. History of the Florida herpetofauna—evidence from the fossil record. Florida State Museum, Florida Herpetologist (5):1–25.
85	Meylan, P. 1984. A history of fossil amphibians and reptiles in Florida. Florida State Museum, The Plaster Jacket No. 44:5–29.
86	Meylan, P. A. 1995. Pleistocene amphibians and reptiles from the Leisley Shell Pits, Hillsborough County, Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 37 Part I:273–297.
87	Meylan, P. A., W. A. Auffenberg, and R. C. Hurlbert. 2001. Amphibia: frogs, toads, and salamanders. Pages 107–117 in R. C. Hurlbert, editor. The fossil vertebrates of Florida. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
88	Meylan, P. A., W. A. Auffenberg, and R. C. Hurlbert. 2001. Reptilia 1: turtles and tortoises. Pages 118–136 in R. C. Hurlbert, editor. The fossil vertebrates of Florida. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
89	Meylan, P. A., W. A. Auffenberg, and R. C. Hurlbert. 2001. Reptilia 2: lizards, snakes, and crocodilians. Pages 137–151 in R. C. Hurlbert, editor. The fossil vertebrates of Florida. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
90	Morgan, G. S. 1986. The so-called giant Miocene dolphin Megalodelphis magnidens Kellogg (Mammalia: Cetacea) is actually a crocodile (Reptilia: Crocodilia). Journal of Paleontology 40:411–417.
91	Morgan, G. S., and R. B. Ridgway. 1987. Late Pliocene (Late Blancan) vertebrates from the St. Petersburg Times site, Pinellas County, Florida, with a brief review of Florida Blancan faunas. Paper of the Florida Paleontologist No. 1. 22pp.
92	Morgan, G. S., and R. C. Hurlbert, Jr. 1995. Overview of the geology and vertebrate biochronology of the Leisley Shell Pit local fauna, Hillsborough County, Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 37 Part I:1–92.
93	Murray, M. 1967. Hunting for fossils: a guide to finding & collecting fossils in all fifty states. Macmillan, New York, New York, USA. 348pp.
94	Neill, W. T. 1957. The rapid mineralization of organic remains in Florida, and its bearing on supposed Pleistocene records. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 20:1–13.
95	Neill, W. T. 1957. Historical biogeography of present-day Florida. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 2:175–220.
96	Neill, W. T. 1961. Giant rattlesnakes—past and present. Florida Wildlife 15(1):10–13.
97	Neill, W. T. 1971. The last of the ruling reptiles: alligators, crocodiles, and their kin. Columbia University Press, New York, New York, USA. 486pp.
98	Ober, L. D. 1978. The Monkey Jungle, a late Pleistocene fossil site in southern Florida. Florida State Museum, The Plaster Jacket No. 28:1–13.
99	Patton, T. H. 1964. The Thomas Farm vertebrate locality. Pages 12–20 in W. Auffenberg, et al., editors. Guidebook 1964 field trip in central Florida. Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
100	Patton, T. H., and S. D. Webb. 1970. Fossil vertebrate deposits in Florida. Florida State Museum, The Plaster Jacket No. 14:1–18.
101	Pratt, A. E. 1990. Taphonomy of the large vertebrate fauna from the Thomas Farm locality (Miocene, Hemingfordian), Gilchrist County, Florida. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 35:35–130.
102	Puri, H. S., and R. O. Vernon. 1964. Summary of the geology of Florida and a guidebook to the classic exposures. Florida Geological Survey Special Publication No. 5 (revised). 312 pp.
103	Pytel, B. A. 1986. Biochemical systematics of the eastern North American frogs of the genus Rana. Herpetologica 42:273–282.
104	Reilly, S. M. 1990. Biochemical systematics and evolution of the eastern North American newts, genus Notophthalmus (Caudata: Salamandridae). Herpetologica 46:51–59.
105	Renz, M. 1999. Fossiling in Florida. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 202pp.
106	Rose, F. L., and W. G. Weaver, Jr. 1966. Two new species of Chrysemys (=Pseudemys) from the Florida Pliocene. Tulane Studies in Geology 5:41–48.
107	Rowe, T., C. A. Brochu, and K. Kishi, editors. 1998. Cranial morphology of Alligator mississippiensis and phylogeny of Alligatoridea. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19(2, supplement), Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 6, Northbrook, Illinois, USA. 100pp.
108	Schaffer, C. 2001. Chelonian zooarcheology of Florida and the adjacent Southeast Coastal Plain. Page 132 (abstract) in Proceedings of the Joint Annual Meetings of the Herpetologists' League and the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 27–31 July 2001, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
109	Seidel, M. E., and D. R. Jackson. 1990. Evolution and fossil relationships of slider turtles. Pages 68–73 in J. W. Gibbons, editor. Life history and ecology of the slider turtle. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
110	Sellards, E. H. 1916. Human remains and associated fossils from the Pleistocene of Florida. Annual Report of the Florida Geological Survey 8:123–160.
111	Sill, W. D. 1968. The zoogeography of the Crocodilia. Copeia 1968:76–88.
112	Steel, R. 1989. Crocodiles. Christopher Helm, London, United Kingdom. 198pp.
113	Tihen, J. A. 1951. Anuran remains from the Miocene of Florida, with the description of a new species of Bufo. Copeia 1951:230–235.
114	Tihen, J. A. 1952. Rana grylio from the Pleistocene of Florida. Herpetologica 8:107.
115	Tihen, J. A. 1962. A review of New World fossil bufonids. American Midland Naturalist 68:1–50.
116	Toops, C. M. 1979. The alligator: monarch of the Everglades. Everglades Natural History Association, Homestead, Florida, USA. 63pp.
117	Vanzolini, P. E. 1952. Fossil snake, and lizards of Florida. Tulane Studies in Zoology 10:131–216.
118	Wark, A. F. 1928. Description of a giant fossil tortoise from the Pliocene of Florida. Florida Naturalist 2:9–10.
119	Weaver, W. S., Jr., and J. S. Robertson. 1967. A re-evaluation of fossil turtles of the Chrysemys scripta group. Tulane Studies in Geology 5:53–66.
120	Webb, R. G. 1962. North American recent soft-shelled turtle (Family Trionychidae). Publication of the Kansas Museum of Natural History 13:429–611.
121	Webb, S. D. 1964. The Alachua Formation. Pages 22–29 in W. Auffenberg, et al., editors. Guidebook 1964 field trip in central Florida. Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
122	Webb, S. D., B. J. MacFadden, and J. A. Baskin. 1981. Geology and paleontology of the Love Bone Bed from the Late Miocene of Florida. American Journal of Science 281:513–544.
123	Weigel, R. D. 1958. Fossil vertebrates of Vero, Florida. Dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 87pp.
124	Weigel, R. D. 1962. Fossil vertebrates of Vero, Florida. Florida Geological Survey, Special Publication No. 10. 59pp.
125	Whetzel, M. 1985. Fossil herpetological record in Florida. Gainesville Herpetological Society Newsletter 1(2):15–17.
126	White, T. E. 1942. A new alligator from the Miocene of Florida. Copeia 1942:3–7.
127	Williams, E. E. 1953. A new fossil tortoise from the Thomas Farm Miocene of Florida. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 107:537–554.
128	Zug, G. R. 1968. Geographic variation in Rhineura floridana (Reptilia: Amphisbaenidae). Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 12:185–212.

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