Galena (Snyder Collection) (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Jo Daviess County, Illinois (42.4° N, 90.4° W: paleocoordinates 42.5° N, 90.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: karst; poorly lithified, ferruginous, brown sandstone

• all Galena-area Pleistocene collections apparently come from "loose or more or less compact matrix of brown ferruginous sand" within "lead-bearing crevices" devloped in a "cliff limestone" (Leidy 1860)

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Mr. Snyder

Primary reference: J. L. Leconte. 1848. Notice of five new species of fossil Mammalia from Illinois. American Journal of Science and Arts 5:102-106 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 87059: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.03.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Leptictidae
Anomodon snyderi n. gen. n. sp.
Anomodon snyderi n. gen. n. sp. Leconte 1848 eutherian
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
"Platygonus compressus n. gen. n. sp." = Platygonus compressus, "Hyops depressifrons n. gen. n. sp." = Platygonus compressus, "Protochoerus prismaticus n. gen. n. sp." = Platygonus compressus
"Platygonus compressus n. gen. n. sp." = Platygonus compressus Leconte 1848 peccary
"Hyops depressifrons n. gen. n. sp." = Platygonus compressus Leconte 1848 peccary
"Protochoerus prismaticus n. gen. n. sp." = Platygonus compressus Leconte 1848 peccary
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bison antiquus, "Sus americana" = Bison latifrons
Bison antiquus Leidy 1852 bison
"Sus americana" = Bison latifrons Harlan 1825 bison
 Carnivora - Procyonidae
"Procyon priscus n. sp." = Procyon lotor
"Procyon priscus n. sp." = Procyon lotor Linnaeus 1758 raccoon
 Megatherioidea - Megalonychidae
Megalonyx jeffersonii Desmarest 1822 Jefferson's ground sloth