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 | |
"Mastodon americanus" = Mammut americanum
"Mastodon americanus" = Mammut americanum Kerr 1792 American mastodon |