Stevenson Bridge UCMP V76199: Rancholabrean, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Glossotherium harlani (Owen 1840)
2 specimens
recombined as Paramylodon harlani
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus columbi (Falconer 1857)
2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:Yolo
Coordinates: 38.5° North, 121.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.5° North, 121.8° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Rancholabrean
Age range of interval:0.21000 - 0.01400 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: possible late Sangomonian; suspect U-Th date ca. 77k
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: claystone
Secondary lithology: sandstone
Lithology description: Fossils were recovered from a 0.5-0.75 m thick greenish-grey silty clay layer capped by a 0.5-1.0 m thick sequence of brownish sediments of silt, sand and gravel
Environment:fluvial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Associated major elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:UCMP
Metadata
Database number:192043
Authorizer:P. Holroyd Enterer:P. Holroyd
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2018-03-04 01:48:45 Last modified:2018-03-04 01:48:45
Access level:the public Released:2018-03-04 01:48:45
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
64914. R. G. Dundas and L. M. Cunningham. 1993. Harlan's Ground Sloth (Glossotherium harlani) and a Columbian Mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) from Stevenson Bridge, Yolo County, California. PaleoBios 15(3):47-62 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]