Scout Hollow: Pleistocene, West Virginia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Mammut americanum
(Kerr 1792)
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | West Virginia | County: | Monroe |
| Coordinates: | 37.6° North, 80.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.6° North, 80.3° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
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
| Stratigraphy comments: "The 14C dates are 11,350 ± 360 years BP for the tooth and 21,830 ± 660 years BP for the humerus fragment" |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | cave |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | UNSM |
| Collection method comments: "Molds and casts have been made of the teeth and deposited in the U.S. Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian) and Carnegie Museum of Natural History. The original teeth are on loan from the owner and on exhibit at the West Virginia Geological Survey Museum." | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 126593 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Shalap |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | ||
| Created: | 2012-04-08 13:09:51 | Last modified: | 2014-12-04 10:14:38 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-04-08 13:09:51 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 41075. | F. Grady, E. R. Garton, T. Byland and R. L. Pyle. 2005. New records of Mammut americanum (Mastodon) from Monroe County, West Virginia. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 67(3):195 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap] |
Secondary references:
| 40632 | E. R. Garton, T. Byland, F. Grady and R. L. Pyle. 2005. New records of Mammut americanum (mastodon) from Monroe County, West Virginia. Proceedings of the West Virginia Academy of Science 77(1):8 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Shalap] |