Old Kankakee Marsh: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Indiana
collected by Henry Duncker

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut americanum (Kerr 1792)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Cervidae
Odocoileus virginianus (Zimmermann 1780)
Cervus americanus Clinton 1822
synonym of Alces alces
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Indiana County:LaPorte
Coordinates: 41.3° North, 85.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.3° North, 85.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
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: "glacial"
none of the fossils "occurred at a greater depth than ten feet"
Lithology and environment
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:glacial
Geology comments: "deposited in the old glacial Lake Kankakee"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:Henry Duncker
Metadata
Database number:74142
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-07-24 20:49:07 Last modified:2007-09-18 13:35:02
Access level:the public Released:2007-07-24 20:49:07
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

24885. M. W. Lyon, Jr. 1931. A small collection of Pleistocene mammals from Laporte County, Indiana. American Midland Naturalist 12(10):406-410 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]