Little Britain (Pleistocene of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
"Mastodon americanus" = Mammut americanum
"Mastodon americanus" = Mammut americanum Kerr 1792 American mastodon
one-third of a skeleton, forming part of the "Whitfield skeleton"