Nine Mile Bottom: 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
(2 measurements)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:South Carolina County:Charleston
Coordinates: 32.7° North, 80.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.7° North, 80.1° 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:black siltstone
Lithology description: "in the black earth 3 to 4 feet from the surface"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:salvage,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 "while stripping to get to the [underlying] phosphate deposit"
Metadata
Database number:101396
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2010-12-21 15:56:02 Last modified:2010-12-20 22:56:02
Access level:the public Released:2010-12-21 15:56:02
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]