Thornton Beach: 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 hayi
(Barbour 1915)
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| compatible with Webb and Dudley 1995, but assigned to M. meridionalis by Lucas 1996 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | San Mateo |
| Coordinates: | 37.7° North, 122.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.6° North, 122.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
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 |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Museum repositories: | UCMP |
| Taxonomic list comments:dated at 1.5 +/- 0.8 Ma KA: Madden 1980 | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | UCMP V-6422 | ||
| Database number: | 20543 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 2391. | C. T. Madden. 1983. More earliest isotopically dated Mammuthus from North America. Quaternary Research 19(2):275-277 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |