Savannah, near, Pleistocene (Pleistocene of the United States)
Where: Chatham County, Georgia (32.1° N, 81.1° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 80.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: A. E. Sanders. 2002. Additions to the Pleistocene Mammal Faunas of South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. American Philosophical Society 1-152 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 80231: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 09.04.2008, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Reptilia | |
"Terrapene canaliculata n. sp." = Terrapene putnami2
"Terrapene canaliculata n. sp." = Terrapene putnami2 Hay 1906 box turtle Precise locality not known. It is said to come from Whitemarsh or Skedaway Island, below Savannah. To avoid making such an imprecise collection I add this record here.
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| Mammalia | |
"Hydrochoerus holmesi" = Neochoerus aesopi
"Hydrochoerus holmesi" = Neochoerus aesopi Leidy 1853 caviomorph | |
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| Chondrichthyes | |
"Odontaspis cuspidata" = Araloselachus cuspidatus3
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