Where: Seward County, Kansas (37.2° N, 100.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 99.6° W)
When: Late/Upper Hemphillian to Late/Upper Hemphillian (10.3 - 4.9 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: W. von Koenigswald, C. Widga, and U. Göhlich. 2023. New mammutids (Proboscidea) from the Clarendonian and Hemphillian of Oregon – a survey of Mio-Pliocene mammutids from North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Natural History, University of Oregon 30:1-63 [N. Famoso/N. Famoso]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 231903: authorized by Nicholas Famoso, entered by Nicholas Famoso on 29.09.2023
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Pliomastodon adamsi" = Mammut americanum, Mammut matthewi
"Pliomastodon adamsi" = Mammut americanum Kerr 1792 American mastodon Type locality of: Pliomastodon adamsi HIBBARD, 1944
Mammut matthewi Osborn 1921 mastodon |