Morrisania, The Bronx (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Bronx County, New York (40.8° N, 73.9° W: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 73.7° 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; gravel

• "It was obtained from a stratum of drifted material about 4 feet in thickness, underlain by gneiss rock, and covered with 6 feet of artificial filling"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. Stoker in 1880

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: N. L. Britton. 1885. [An extract from the New York Times…]. Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences 5:14-15 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 222824: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.10.2021

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
"Mastodon americanus" = Mammut americanum
"Mastodon americanus" = Mammut americanum Kerr 1792 American mastodon
tusk, NY School of Mines