Wilcox Playa: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Arizona

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Emydidae
Terrapene cf. ornata Agassiz 1857
(1 measurement)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Camelidae
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Arizona County:Cochise
Coordinates: 32.3° North, 109.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.2° North, 109.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Late/Upper Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: "latest Wisconsinan"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Lithology description: none given
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:late glacial
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:see also Lindsay and Tessman 1974
Metadata
Also known as:UALP 50
Database number:76068
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-11-11 17:37:41 Last modified:2007-11-11 19:37:41
Access level:the public Released:2007-11-11 17:37:40
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
25771. K. B. Moodie and T. R. Van Devender. 1978. Fossil box turtles (genus Terrapene) from southern Arizona. Herpetologica 34(2):172-174 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]