Cheney mammoth: Middle Pleistocene, Washington

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas primigenius Blumenbach 1799
recombined as Mammuthus primigenius
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Washington County:Spokane
Coordinates: 47.5° North, 117.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.5° North, 117.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Chibanian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Middle Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.77400 - 0.12900 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "The till [underlying the skeleton]... is probably the earliest of three known glacial periods in eastern Washington... It is probable that the mammoth lived and died in an interglacial period earlier than that which immediately preceded the Wisconsin stage"
Lithology and environment
Environment:loess
Glacial or sequence phase:interglacial
Geology comments: "at the top of glacial till overlain by loess" (skeleton from the loess)
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Associated major elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: "A farmer plowed up a bone and digging unearthed the remains, which were close to the surface"
Metadata
Database number:75033
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-09-16 12:58:11 Last modified:2007-09-17 17:32:36
Access level:the public Released:2007-09-16 12:58:11
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
25309. O. W. Freeman. 1926. Mammoth found in loess of Washington. Science 64:477 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]