Sweeny Site: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Michigan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus jeffersoni (Osborn 1922)
1 specimen
synonym of Mammuthus columbi
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Michigan County:Huron
Coordinates: 43.7° North, 83.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.7° North, 83.1° 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: 9600 +- 500 B.P. based on a large piece of bone
Lithology and environment
Environment:mire/swamp
Geology comments: probably a bog burial
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate,anthropogenic
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:63389
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-08-14 06:11:21 Last modified:2006-12-21 16:07:04
Access level:the public Released:2006-08-14 06:11:21
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]