Avenue Area A (Pleistocene of the United States)

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

• "the site was not a large pond or channel. A marsh seems more likely"
• "red-brown clay" and "grey-green clay"

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
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut americanum Kerr 1792 American mastodon
Reptilia
 Testudines - Emydidae
Emydidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 turtle