Adams site: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Michigan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut americanum (Kerr 1792)
1 specimen
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Microtus pennsylvanicus (Ord 1815)
Actinopteri - Centrarchiformes - Centrarchidae
cf. Pomoxis sp.
Actinopteri - Cypriniformes - Catostomidae
Catostomus commersoni
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Michigan County:Livingston
Coordinates: 42.7° North, 84.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.7° North, 84.2° 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
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: late Pleistocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified sandy claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: sandy clay
Environment:lacustrine - small
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Fowlerville, west
Database number:63223
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-08-09 08:37:24 Last modified:2006-12-21 15:41:09
Access level:the public Released:2006-08-09 08:37:24
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]