Taylor Site: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Michigan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Mammut americanum
(Kerr 1792)
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1 specimen | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Michigan | County: | Genesee |
| Coordinates: | 43.2° North, 83.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.2° North, 83.7° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| 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 claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: mottled clay below a peat layer | |
| Environment: | glacial |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Feeding/predation traces: | tooth marks |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | UMMP |
Metadata
| Database number: | 63239 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-08-09 10:58:55 | Last modified: | 2010-01-28 16:11:52 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-08-09 10:58:55 |
| 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:
| 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] |