Colby Site: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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| "camel radius" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus (Parelephas) columbi
(Falconer 1857)
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| recombined as Mammuthus columbi | ||||||||||
| "Mammuthus (Parelephas) columbi columbi" | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Washakie |
| Coordinates: | 44.0° North, 107.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 44.0° North, 107.9° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Altitude: | 1298 meters | ||||
| 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 | ||
| Age estimate: | 11200 ± 200 YBP (14C) |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "A mammoth vertebra... was radiocarbon dated" at "11,200 +/- 200 years old"; the alluvium "varied from about 1 to 3 m in depth and up to 6 m wide" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "shale" |
| Lithology description: "alluvium" on top of the "variegated shale" of the Willwood Formation | |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | late glacial |
| Geology comments: "in an old arroyo which is centered in a small dendritic drainage basin" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,anthropogenic |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Articulated whole bodies: | some |
| Associated major elements: | many |
| Feeding/predation traces: | fractures |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | archaeological analysis |
| Museum repositories: | UW |
Metadata
| Database number: | 79626 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-03-14 21:47:56 | Last modified: | 2010-01-28 17:19:19 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-03-14 21:47:56 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 26730. | G. C. Frison. 1976. Cultural activity associated with prehistoric mammoth butchering and processing. Science 194:728-730 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |