Bishopbriggs No. 2 sand pit: Pleistocene, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Coelodonta antiquitatis
(Blumenbach 1799)
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1 element | |||||||||
second left metacarpal Hunterian Museum V. 5570 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | Scotland | County: | Bishopbriggs |
Coordinates: | 55.9° North, 4.2° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 56.0° North, 4.3° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 2.58800 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | gravel |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: bone was found in gravel | |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,survey of museum collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 163747 | ||
Authorizer: | A. McGowan | Enterer: | A. McGowan |
Created: | 2014-11-10 14:36:19 | Last modified: | 2014-11-10 14:36:19 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-11-10 14:36:19 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
53395. | W. D. I. Rolfe. 1966. Woolly rhinoceras from the Scottish Pleistocene. Scottish Journal of Geology 2(3):253-258 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/A. McGowan] |