Catalpa Creek: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Mississippi
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Eromotherium sp.
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Geochelone crassiscutata
(Leidy 1889)
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| recombined as Hesperotestudo crassiscutata | |||||||
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Geochelone sp.
Fitzinger 1835
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Mississippi | County: | Lowndes |
| Coordinates: | 33.5° North, 88.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 33.5° North, 88.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | unlithified muddy,silty claystone |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | late glacial |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 164397 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | L. Harfoush |
| Modifier: | C. Peredo | ||
| Created: | 2014-12-02 04:31:03 | Last modified: | 2014-12-04 09:48:46 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-12-02 04:31:03 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 53645. | J. M. Kaye. 1975. Giant Tortoises in the Late Pleistocene of Mississippi. The Hereptologists's League Journals 31(4):421 [M. Uhen/L. Harfoush] |