Also known as TMM 43067
Where: Travis County, Texas (30.3° N, 98.3° W: paleocoordinates 30.3° N, 98.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• "The bones were encountered at a depth of eighteen feet" and there are radiocarbon dates on "organic material from the clay immediately surrounding the bones" of 17 220 +/- 1870"; "12 170 +/- 3060"; and "15 970 +/- 860"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; green claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by E. Lundelius, A. Briggs, B. Bryant in 1985
Collection methods: bulk, salvage, quarrying, sieve,
• deposit was discovered during "excavations connected with the construction of the Temple-Inland Building" and "small bones were recovered by wet sieving matrix from area B using 1 mm screen"
Primary reference: E. L., J.r. Lundelius. 1992. The Avenue Local Fauna, Late Pleistocene vertebrates from terrace deposits at Austin, Texas. Annales Zoologici Fennici 28:329-340 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 93142: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.01.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
Mammut americanum Kerr 1792 American mastodon | |
Reptilia | |
Emydidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 turtle |