Where: Lenawee County, Michigan (42.0° N, 83.9° W: paleocoordinates 42.0° N, 83.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• bone radiocarbon dated at < 190 B. P.
Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate, anthropogenic
Reposited in the UMMP
Collection methods: quarrying,
• probably deposited by humans
Primary reference: C. E. Harington. 1977. Marine mammals in the Champlain Sea and the Great Lakes. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 288:508-537 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 51030: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 26.05.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Physeter sp. Linnaeus 1758 sperm whale |