Johnson 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 - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828
Abraczinskas 1993 1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Michigan County:Genesee
Coordinates: 43.0° North, 83.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.0° North, 83.5° West
Basis of coordinate:unpublished field data
Geographic resolution:small collection
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
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified sandstone
Environment:fluvial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:UMMP
Metadata
Database number:63237
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-08-09 10:52:11 Last modified:2010-01-28 16:10:20
Access level:the public Released:2006-08-09 10:52:11
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]

Secondary references:

18184 L. M. Abraczinskas. 1993. Pleistocene proboscidean sites in Michigan: New records and an update on published sites. Michigan Academician 25(4):443-490 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
31830 D. C. Fisher. 1984. Taphonomic analysis of late Pleistocene mastodon occurrences: evidence of butchery by North American Paleo-Indians. Paleobiology 10(3):338-357 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]