Island 35: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Tennessee
collected by J. K. Hampson 1900

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut americanum (Kerr 1792)
(3 measurements)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Tennessee County:Tipton
Coordinates: 35.5° North, 89.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.5° North, 89.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:200 feet
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified argillaceous gravel
Lithology description: "in gravels where the sand of the point bar had been swept away... the gravel... was made up of water worn pebbles cemeted together by clay"
Environment:coarse channel fill
Geology comments: general context is "late allucial fill" [sic] and the site was "originally on a gravel island in the middle of the braided Ohio River channel"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:archaeological analysis
Collectors:J. K. Hampson Collection dates:1900
Collection method comments: Hampson's material was "excavated with a pick" but local residents had already removed much of the skeleton
repository unclear
Taxonomic list comments:identified by E. H. Colbert
Metadata
Database number:101393
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2010-12-21 14:41:37 Last modified:2010-12-20 21:41:37
Access level:the public Released:2010-12-21 14:41:37
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

34581. S. Williams. 1957. The Island 35 mastodon: its bearing on the age of archaic cultures in the East. American Antiquity 22(4):359-372 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]