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: terrestrial; peat
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1879
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: C. A. Hartnagel and S. C. Sherman. 1922. The mastodons, mammoths and other Pleistocene mammals of New York State, being a descriptive record of all known occurrences. New York State Museum Bulletin 241-242:1-110 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 222848: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.10.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Mastodon americanus" = Mammut americanum
"Mastodon americanus" = Mammut americanum Kerr 1792 American mastodon one-third of a skeleton, forming part of the "Whitfield skeleton"
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