Cave ACb-3 Unit E: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Alabama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Cingulata
- Dasypodidae
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Dasypus bellus
(Simpson 1929)
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Mammalia
- Megalonychidae
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Megalonyx jeffersonii
(Desmarest 1822)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Smilodon fatalis
(Leidy 1868)
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Tapiridae
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Tapirus sp.
Brisson 1762
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Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Mylohyus nasutus
(Leidy 1868)
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= Mylohyus fossilis
Leidy 1860
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Alroy 2002 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Castoroides sp.
Foster 1838
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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] |