Also known as Lupe the Mammoth Site

Where: Santa Clara County, California (37.4° N, 121.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 121.6° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• bones were found in a hard pan about 3.5 m below the modern floodplain and 4.5 m below sea level; Radiocarbon dates of two charcoal specimens from 65 cm below the hardpan were dated at 12,290 and 12,730 radiocarbon years (14,400 and 14,900 ybp) (Andersen et al. 2008).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying

Primary reference: K. C. Maguire and P. A. Holroyd. 2016. Pleistocene vertebrates of Silicon Valley (Santa Clara County, California). PaleoBios 33:1-14 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 183454: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 23.12.2016

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