Harmony Mill #3, Cohoes (Pleistocene of the United States)
Where: Albany County, New York (42.8° N, 73.7° W: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 73.5° W)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone
• "Most of the bones were lying on a bed of clay and broken slate above a layer of water-worn pebbles. Above the bones there was an accumulation of muck, peaty soil with fragments of limbs and rotten, beaver-gnawed wood and artificial fill, almost 60 feet in thickness."
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1866
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),
Primary reference: O. P. Hay. 1919. On some proboscideans of the State of New York. Science 49(1268):377-379 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 222822: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.10.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Show authors, comments, and common names
| Mammalia | |
|
| |