Crofthead Pit SE corner: Pleistocene, United Kingdom
collected 1932
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Coelodonta antiquitatis
(Blumenbach 1799)
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1 element | |||||||||
| distal end left tibia; Glasgow City Museum G66.29.b | ||||||||||
| 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: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
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: | brown unlithified sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Sharp brown sand | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | Collection dates: | 1932 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 163749 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. McGowan | Enterer: | A. McGowan |
| Modifier: | A. McGowan | ||
| Created: | 2014-11-10 14:47:46 | Last modified: | 2014-11-10 14:48:38 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-11-10 14:47:46 |
| 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] |