Pleasant Lake Drain, near: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Michigan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Michigan County:Washtenaw
Coordinates: 42.2° North, 84.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.2° North, 84.0° 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: possibly late Pleistocene
Lithology and environment
Environment:glacial
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:63407
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-08-14 08:27:15 Last modified:2006-12-21 16:33:08
Access level:the public Released:2006-08-14 08:27:15
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

18240. J. Shoshani. 1989. A report on the Shelton Mastodon Site and a discussion of the numbers of mastodons and mammoths in Michigan. Michigan Academician 21(2):115-132 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]