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