Charles Feldheiser Farm: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Indiana
collected by D. Harper, C. J. Fish, W. L. Richmond, J. T. Sanford 1930, 1931
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Mammut sp.
Blumenbach 1799
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"mastodon" | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Indiana | County: | Nobel |
Coordinates: | 41.4° North, 85.6° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 41.4° North, 85.6° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
Stage: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "probably... about 10,000 years ago in the post-glacial age" |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | black unlithified muddy claystone |
Lithology description: "black mud... a foot of muck and three or four feet of clay" | |
Environment: | pond |
Geology comments: "a dried-up pond" |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying | ||
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
Collectors: | D. Harper, C. J. Fish, W. L. Richmond, J. T. Sanford | Collection dates: | 1930, 1931 |
Collection method comments: Buffalo Museum of Science collection |
Metadata
Also known as: | Cromwell; Richmond Mastodon | ||
Database number: | 101392 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2010-12-21 12:11:52 | Last modified: | 2010-12-20 19:24:41 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-12-21 12:11:52 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
34579. | Anonymous. 1931. Record size mastodon found by Indiana farmer boy. The Science News-Letter 19(513):87 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |