Belvidere (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Allegany County, New York (42.3° N, 78.1° W: paleocoordinates 42.3° N, 77.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Johnson & A. Stewart in 1903; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: Anonymous. 1904. Remains of a large mastodon. The American Geologist 33:60 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 222823: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.10.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
"Mastodon americanus" = Mammut americanum
"Mastodon americanus" = Mammut americanum Kerr 1792 American mastodon
3 ribs, 4 vertebrae