UCMP 524, Rodeo Oyster Bed: Late/Upper Pleistocene, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus columbi (Falconer 1857)
DUPLICATE REF 2018 or 2019
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:Contra Costa
Coordinates: 38.0° North, 122.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.0° North, 122.3° 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
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:interglacial
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:UCMP
Taxonomic list comments:said to be "180 stage 5"
Metadata
Also known as:DUPLICATE REF 2018 or 2019
Database number:20637
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-05-15 00:00:00 Last modified:2017-04-16 22:15:10
Access level:the public Released:2002-05-15 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2018. G. T. Jefferson. 1991. A catalogue of late Quaternary Vertebrates from California: Part Two, Mammals. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Technical Reports 7:1-129 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Holroyd]