HLM: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Virginia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Virginia
Coordinates: 37.0° North, 75.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.0° North, 75.0° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
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
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
Collection method comments: dredged
Metadata
Database number:108270
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-04-27 08:45:50 Last modified:2011-04-26 18:45:50
Access level:the public Released:2011-04-27 08:45:50
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

35865. F. C. Whitmore, K. O. Emery, H. B. S. Cooke and D. J. P. Swift. 1967. Elephant Teeth from the Atlantic Continental Shelf. Science 156(3781):1477-1481 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Shalap]