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
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Elephas primigenius
Blumenbach 1799
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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] |