Tilghman Island (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Talbot County, Maryland (38.7° N, 76.3° W: paleocoordinates 38.7° N, 76.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Rancholabrean (0.3 - 0.0 Ma)

• An accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) date on an organic stratum above the faunal assemblage at Paw Paw Cove suggests that the assemblage is approximately 21,000 years old

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone

• loess

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. E. Eshelman, D. Lowery, F. Grady, D. Wagner, and H. G. McDonald. 2018. Late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) Mammalian Assemblage from Paw Paw Cove, Tilghman Island, Maryland. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 102:1-15 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 195939: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 31.08.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut americanum
Mammut americanum Kerr 1792 American mastodon
 Carnivora - Canidae
Canis cf. latrans
Canis cf. latrans Say 1823 coyote
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
cf. Cervus elaphus
cf. Cervus elaphus Linnaeus 1758 red deer
 Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
"Tapirus veroensis" = Tapirus (Helicotapirus) veroensis
"Tapirus veroensis" = Tapirus (Helicotapirus) veroensis Sellards 1918 tapir
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp.
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Castoroides sp.
Castoroides sp. Foster 1838 giant beaver