Massacre Rocks: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Idaho

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
23 specimens
Mammalia - Camelidae
Camelops hesternus (Leidy 1873)
70 specimens
Mammalia - Cervidae
Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832
2 specimens
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bison cf. antiquus Leidy 1852
7 specimens
Bison latifrons (Harlan 1825)
13 specimens
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Smilodon fatalis (Leidy 1868)
1 specimen
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis latrans Say 1823
1 specimen
Mammalia - Megalonychidae
Megalonyx jeffersonii (Desmarest 1822)
2 specimens
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Paramylodon harlani (Owen 1840)
2 specimens
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
cf. Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828
1 specimen
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
cf. Mammut americanum (Kerr 1792)
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Idaho County:Power
Coordinates: 42.8° North, 112.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.2° North, 111.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Local age/stage:Sangamonian
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: said to be Sangamonian
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:interglacial
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:123 specimens
Taxonomic list comments:NISP 123
Metadata
Also known as:IMNH 85002
Database number:20612
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1998-10-13 00:00:00 Last modified:2007-09-17 17:46:40
Access level:the public Released:1998-10-13 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2501. H. G. McDonald. 1998. Idaho Museum of Natural History Occasional Paper 36:156-172 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]