Canton Lake (Pleistocene of the United States)

Also known as OMNH V1085

Where: Blaine County, Oklahoma (36.1° N, 98.6° W: paleocoordinates 36.1° N, 98.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Rancholabrean (0.3 - 0.0 Ma)

• "The Quaternary deposit may represent the third terrace of the North Canadian River... which is thought to reflect the Illinoian glacial stage."

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; siltstone and gray, green claystone

• "deposit... incorporates clasts of sand, silt, and clay... [with] a green-gray clay within the bone-bearing deposit."

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. L. Gordon and N. J. Czaplewski. 1998. Second record of the Pleistocene saber-toothed cat, Smilodon fatalis, in Oklahoma. Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science 78:133-135 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 70136: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.03.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
"small, freshwater gastropods"
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Felidae
Smilodon fatalis Leidy 1868 saber-toothed cat
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus columbi Falconer 1857 Columbian mammoth