Mammoth Cove Sandstone: Irvingtonian, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus columbi
(Falconer 1857)
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= Mammuthus imperator
Leidy 1858
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Albright 1999 | |||||||||
| synonym of Mammuthus columbi | ||||||||||
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Mammuthus meridionalis
(Nesti 1825)
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= Mammuthus hayi
Barbour 1915
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Albright 1999 | |||||||||
| "M. imperator" | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | San Diego |
| Coordinates: | 32.9° North, 117.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 32.9° North, 116.8° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Irvingtonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 1.40000 - 0.21000 m.y. ago |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Taxonomic list comments:in a reversed chron identified as C1r.1r basal unit of fm. see also Remeika and Jefferson 1994 not clear how this relates to Borrego Badlands and Coyote Canyon |
Metadata
| Database number: | 20409 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 2020. | G. T. Jefferson and P. Remeika. 1994. The Mid-Pleistocene Stratigraphic Co-occurrence of Mammuthus columbi and M. imperator in the Ocotillo Formation, Borrego Badlands, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California. Current Research in the Pleistocene 11:89-92 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 939 | L. B. Albright. 1999. Biostratigraphy and Vertebrate Paleontology of the San Timoteo Badlands, Southern California. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 144:1-121 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |