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
Mammut sp. Blumenbach 1799
"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]