Bailer Farm (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Midland County, Michigan (43.8° N, 84.5° W: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 84.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• believed to derive from the ice free, mid-Wisconsinan Plum Point Interstadial and to have been redeposited during stream cutting about 3,300 years ago

Environment/lithology: glacial

Primary reference: R. O. Kapp. 1970. A 24,000-year-old Jefferson mammoth from Midland County, Michigan. Michigan Academician 3(2):95-99 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 63217: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 09.08.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Mammuthus jeffersoni" = Mammuthus columbi
"Mammuthus jeffersoni" = Mammuthus columbi Falconer 1857 Columbian mammoth