Tiger Butte Mammoth: Irvingtonian, Montana
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus primigenius
(Blumenbach 1799)
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Montana | County: | Cascade |
| Coordinates: | 47.2° North, 111.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 47.2° North, 110.8° 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 |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Wiota Gravels |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Taxonomic list comments:said to be possibly pre-Illinoian |
Metadata
| Database number: | 20545 | ||
| 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:
| 4222. | C. L. Hill. 2001. Pleistocene mammals of Montana and their geologic context. Museum of the Rockies Occasional Paper 3:127-144 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |