Payson mammoth: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Utah
collected by Hansen 1928

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:Utah County:Utah
Coordinates: 40.1° North, 111.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.0° North, 111.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
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
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "fifteen feet below the surface of the terrace gravels of what is termed the Provo stage of the ancient Lake Bonneville... late Pleistocene in age (estimated thirty thousand years)"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine claystone
Lithology description: "a thin bed of fine clay... [with] almost blood-red gravels above... [and] coarse grain sands below the shale" (the clay and the shale being the same)
Environment:fluvial indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:high glacial
Geology comments: "terrace gravels"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Associated major elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:Hansen Collection dates:1928
Collection method comments: "Gravel workers... uncovered a partial skeleton... Excavations were immediately placed under the supervision of the author" and apparently reposited at Brigham Young University
Metadata
Database number:75035
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-09-16 13:15:36 Last modified:2007-09-18 00:22:15
Access level:the public Released:2007-09-16 13:15:36
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

25311. G. H. Hansen. 1928. Hairy mammoth skeleton in Utah. Science 68:621 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]