Bishopbriggs No. 2 sand pit: Pleistocene, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Coelodonta antiquitatis (Blumenbach 1799)
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]