Cave ACb-3 Unit E: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Alabama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Dasypus bellus (Simpson 1929)
Mammalia - Megalonychidae
Megalonyx jeffersonii (Desmarest 1822)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Smilodon fatalis (Leidy 1868)
Parmalee and Graham 2002
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tapirus sp. Brisson 1762
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Mylohyus nasutus (Leidy 1868)
    = Mylohyus fossilis Leidy 1860
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Castoroides sp. Foster 1838
Parmalee and Graham 2002
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Colbert
Coordinates: 34.7° North, 87.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.7° North, 87.7° 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:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:ACb-3 Local bed:3
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: 228,000 to 115,000 YBP
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:cave
Glacial or sequence phase:interglacial
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:U-series dates of 0.115 +/- 0.004 and 0.121 +/- 0.006 Ma (average = 0.118 Ma)
overlies unit D

"22 other small vertebrates" apparently not yet identified
Sangamonian
Metadata
Database number:20584
Authorizer:J. Alroy, M. Uhen Enterer:J. Alroy, M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:1995-03-26 00:00:00 Last modified:2008-09-23 14:58:49
Access level:the public Released:1995-03-26 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2254. R. S. Lively, G. L. Bell, and J. P. Lamb. 1992. Uranium-series dates from travertines associated with a late Pleistocene megafauna in ACb-3, Alabama. Southeastern Geology 33(1):1-8 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
28175 P. W. Parmalee and R. W. Graham. 2002. Additional records of the giant beaver, Castoroides, from the Mid-South: Alabama, Tennessee, and South Carolina. Smithsonian Contribution to Paleobiology 93:65-71 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
28174 W. Shaver, B. Schubert, and S. Wallace. 2006. The cave of sloths: A description Megalonyx jeffersonii remains from ACb-3 cave, Colbert County Alabama. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(3):124 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]