Bailer Farm: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Michigan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus jeffersoni
(Osborn 1922)
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| synonym of Mammuthus columbi | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Michigan | County: | Midland |
| Coordinates: | 43.8° North, 84.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.8° North, 84.5° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: believed to derive from the ice free, mid-Wisconsinan Plum Point Interstadial and to have been redeposited during stream cutting about 3,300 years ago |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | glacial |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 63217 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-08-09 07:39:51 | Last modified: | 2006-12-21 16:30:19 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-08-09 07:39:51 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 18195. | R. O. Kapp. 1970. A 24,000-year-old Jefferson mammoth from Midland County, Michigan. Michigan Academician 3(2):95-99 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |