Rappuhn Farm: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Michigan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Cupressacea indet.
1.0 %-specimens
plus Taxacea
Angiospermae - Poales - Typhaceae
Typha sp. Linnaeus 1753
plus Sparganinum
Angiospermae - Poales - Poaceae
Gramineae indet. de Jussieu
2.5 %-specimens
synonym of Poaceae
Angiospermae - Poales - Cyperaceae
Cyperaceae indet. Jussieu 1789
Angiospermae - Fagales - Fagaceae
Quercus sp. Linnaeus 1753
6.1 %-specimens
Angiospermae - Fagales - Betulaceae
Ostrya sp. Scopoli 1760
0.5 %-specimens
plus Carpinus
Betula sp. Linnaeus 1753
0.5 %-specimens
Angiospermae - Malpighiales - Salicaceae
Salix sp. Linnaeus 1753
2.0 %-specimens
Populus sp. Linnaeus 1753
8.1 %-specimens
Pinopsida - Pinales - Pinaceae
Pinus sp. Linnaeus 1753
3.0 %-specimens
Picea sp. Dietrich 1824
61.9 %-specimens
unclassified
Pteridophyta indet. Haeckel 1875
4.5
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut americanum (Kerr 1792)
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Michigan County:Lapeer
Coordinates: 43.3° North, 83.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.3° North, 83.2° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
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
Age estimate:11980 ± 40 YBP (14C (calibrated))
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:mire/swamp
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate,anthropogenic
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Percentages are for the percent pollen spectra, not percent of all taxa on the list. Total percent pollen spectra reported < 100%.
Metadata
Also known as:Burlington Township
Database number:63219
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-08-09 08:22:15 Last modified:2024-01-29 10:01:07
Access level:the public Released:2006-08-09 08:22:15
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

18196. J. A. Holman, D. C. Fisher, and R. O. Kapp. 1986. Recent discoveries of fossil vertebrates in the lower peninsula of Michigan. Michigan Academician 18(3):431-463 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]