Farmington (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Oakland County, Michigan (42.5° N, 83.4° W: paleocoordinates 42.5° N, 83.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

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

Environment/lithology: pond; peat

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UMMP

Primary reference: R. L. Wilson. 1967. The Pleistocene vertebrates of Michigan. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 52:197-234 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 200623: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 09.04.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Emydidae
Chrysemys sp. Gray 1844 painted turtle
 Testudines - Chelydridae
Chelydra serpentina Linnaeus 1758 Common snapping turtle
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
"Ondatra zibethica" = Ondatra zibethicus
"Ondatra zibethica" = Ondatra zibethicus Linnaeus 1766 muskrat