Naco Mammoth: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Arizona
collected by F. Navarette, E. Antevs, J. F. Lance, E. W. Haury 1951, 1952
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus (Parelephas) columbi
(Falconer 1857)
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| recombined as Mammuthus columbi | ||||||||||
| (4 measurements) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Arizona | County: | Cochise |
| Coordinates: | 31.3° North, 110.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 31.3° North, 110.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Altitude: | 4515 feet | ||||
| 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
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: the fossiliferous bed (e) is "0.55 m to more thick" and is from the Estancia "pluvial maximum" that is correlative with "the Younger Dryas age" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | planar lamination,white sandy siltstone |
| Secondary lithology: | planar lamination,gray claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "alternating laminae of almost white silt (sandy in parts of the section), and of dark gray clay"; "Locally among the bones there were small sandy lenses, evidently the result of current action which brought coarse material into the pond from higher parts of the sand bar [underlying the bed]" | |
| Environment: | pond |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | late glacial |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,anthropogenic |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | archaeological analysis | ||
| Collectors: | F. Navarette, E. Antevs, J. F. Lance, E. W. Haury | Collection dates: | 1951, 1952 |
| Collection method comments: material is in the Arizona State Museum collection | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 79623 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-03-14 18:09:47 | Last modified: | 2008-03-14 23:01:21 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-03-14 18:09:47 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 26727. | E. W. Haury, E. Antevs, and J. F. Lance. 1953. Artifacts with mammoth remains, Naco, Arizona. American Antiquity 19(1):1-24 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |