Also known as Warren mastodon, Newburgh
Where: Orange County, New York (41.5° N, 74.1° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 73.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; shelly/skeletal marl
•"The soil at the bottom of the small pond or bog in which the bones were found, was composed of the following materials: (1) a layer of peat about 2 feet thick; (2) a layer of moss described as red, about 1 foot thick; (3) a layer of shell marl in which most of the bones were embedded."
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Brewster in 1845; reposited in the AMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),
• found by workmen excavating marl
Primary reference: A. J. Prime. 1845. Great American mastodon. American QUarterly Journal of Agriculture and Science 2(2):203-212 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 222846: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.10.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Mastodon americanus" = Mammut americanum
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