Naco Mammoth (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Cochise County, Arizona (31.3° N, 110.0° W: paleocoordinates 31.3° N, 110.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• the fossiliferous bed (e) is "0.55 m to more thick" and is from the Estancia "pluvial maximum" that is correlative with "the Younger Dryas age"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pond; white, sandy siltstone and gray claystone

• "alternating laminae of almost white silt (sandy in parts of the section), and of dark gray clay"; "Locally among the bones there were small sandy lenses, evidently the result of current action which brought coarse material into the pond from higher parts of the sand bar [underlying the bed]"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: anthropogenic

Collected by F. Navarette, E. Antevs, J. F. Lance, E. W. Haury in 1951, 1952

Collection methods: quarrying,

• material is in the Arizona State Museum collection

Primary reference: E. W. Haury, E. Antevs, and J. F. Lance. 1953. Artifacts with mammoth remains, Naco, Arizona. American Antiquity 19(1):1-24 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 79623: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 14.03.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Mammuthus (Parelephas) columbi" = Mammuthus columbi
"Mammuthus (Parelephas) columbi" = Mammuthus columbi Falconer 1857 Columbian mammoth