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] |