Van Horn Site: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Michigan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus sp.
Brookes 1828
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1 specimen | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Michigan | County: | Arenac |
| Coordinates: | 44.1° North, 84.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 44.1° North, 84.1° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
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
| Stratigraphy comments: 11280 +- 70 B.P. |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | glacial |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 63409 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-08-14 09:32:32 | Last modified: | 2006-12-21 16:34:27 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-08-14 09:32:32 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 18241. | J. A. Holman. 1991. New records of Michigan Pleistocene vertebrates with comments on the Mason-Quimby Line. Michigan Academician 23(3):273-283 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |