Hawkins County: Pleistocene, Tennessee
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Mammut americanum
(Kerr 1792)
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Tennessee | County: | Hawkins |
Coordinates: | 36.4° North, 83.0° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 36.5° North, 82.7° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Lithology description: none given | |
Environment: | cave |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 74239 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2007-07-31 21:28:13 | Last modified: | 2007-08-01 00:28:13 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-07-31 21:28:13 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
24936. | A. R. Cahn. 1939. Pleistocene fossils from a cave in Anderson County, Tennessee. Journal of Mammalogy 20(2):248-250 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |