Seger mastodon: Pleistocene, Kansas
collected by Robert Seger 1974

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut americanum (Kerr 1792)
(2 measurements)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kansas County:Stanton
Coordinates: 37.6° North, 101.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.6° North, 101.6° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
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
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "no more recent than late Pleistocene" based on age range of Mammut americanum
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:pebbly claystone
Lithology description: "soils - Clays with some small (less than 1 cm) water worn pebbles"
Environment:fluvial indet.
Geology comments: "riverine, bog or swampy condition"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Associated major elements:some
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:Robert Seger Collection dates:July 1974
Collection method comments: skeleton exposed by Seger "while bulldozing an irrigation reservoir on his land" and apparently reposited in the Kansas State University collection
Metadata
Database number:75053
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-09-17 14:07:43 Last modified:2007-09-17 17:31:05
Access level:the public Released:2007-09-17 14:07:43
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
25319. P. J. O'Brien. 1978. A mastodon from Stanton County, Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 81(4):371-373 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]