Hilton Harbor: Late/Upper Pleistocene, South Carolina
collected by C. U. Shephard, Jr. 1869

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

Geography
Country:United States State/province:South Carolina County:Beaufort
Coordinates: 32.2° North, 80.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.2° North, 80.8° 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
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:C. U. Shephard, Jr. Collection dates:1869
Collection method comments: Amherst College collection
found "nearly at low water. One thigh bone projected for say two feet out of the sand and had been used by boatmen to tie their boats to"
Metadata
Also known as:St. Helena Island
Database number:101395
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2010-12-21 15:53:01 Last modified:2010-12-20 22:56:31
Access level:the public Released:2010-12-21 15:53:01
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
34583. F. B. Loomis. 1918. An unusual mastodon. American Journal of Science 45:438-444 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]