Marshalls Creek: Pleistocene, Pennsylvania
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Mastodon giganteus
(Cuvier 1817)
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| synonym of Mammut americanum | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Pennsylvania | County: | Monroe |
| Coordinates: | 41.0° North, 75.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.1° North, 74.9° West |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified muddy mudstone |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 123965 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Shalap |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | ||
| Created: | 2012-02-03 14:49:25 | Last modified: | 2012-10-27 23:03:03 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-02-03 14:49:25 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 39920. | D. M. Hoff. 2001. The Marshalls Creek Mastodon. Guidebook for the Annual Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists 66:146-149 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Shalap] |