Quarter of a mile south of main entrance to Chippianock Graveyard (Pleistocene of the United States)
Also known as near Rock Island; Chippianock Cemetery
Where: Rock Island County, Illinois (41.5° N, 90.6° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 90.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• "found in the loess"
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siltstone
• loess
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by J. A. Udden
Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1938. Fossil snakes of North America. Geological Society of America Special Paper (9)1-96 [J. Head/J. Head]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 180342: authorized by Paul Barrett, entered by Terri Cleary on 13.07.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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Pituophis sp. Holbrook 1842 gopher snake USNM 7083, left ramus, disarticulated portions of the skull, 39 vertebrae and numerous rib portions
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