Deep Creek Pit: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Virginia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Mammut americanum
(Kerr 1792)
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Virginia |
Coordinates: | 36.8° North, 76.3° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 36.8° North, 76.3° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
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: | not reported |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 104045 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2011-02-05 07:54:18 | Last modified: | 2011-02-04 14:54:18 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-02-05 07:54:18 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
1461. | R. Eshelman and F. Grady. 1986. Quaternary vertebrate localities of Virginia and their avian and mammalian fauna. Virginia Division of Mineral Resources, Publication 75:43-70 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |