Hilton Harbor (Pleistocene of the United States)

Also known as St. Helena Island

Where: Beaufort County, South Carolina (32.2° N, 80.8° W: paleocoordinates 32.2° N, 80.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

• "over half the skeleton" is present

Collected by C. U. Shephard, Jr. in 1869

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Amherst College collection

•found "nearly at low water. One thigh bone projected for say two feet out of the sand and had been used by boatmen to tie their boats to"

Primary reference: F. B. Loomis. 1918. An unusual mastodon. American Journal of Science 45:438-444 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 101395: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.12.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
"Mastodon americanus" = Mammut americanum
"Mastodon americanus" = Mammut americanum Kerr 1792 American mastodon