Ansonia: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Ohio
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Ondatra sp.
Link 1795
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Castor sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Castoroides sp.
Foster 1838
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Cervalces scotti
(Lydekker 1898)
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Mammut sp.
Blumenbach 1799
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Ohio | County: | Darke |
| Coordinates: | 40.2° North, 84.6° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 40.2° North, 84.6° 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 | ||
| Age estimate: | 10230 ± 150 YBP (14C) |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: there is a "single radiocarbon date of 10,230 +/- 150 yr B.P." on a "piece of wood taken from a level slightly higher than that in which the [Cervacles] vertebra was found" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | peat |
| Lithology description: "peat bog" | |
| Environment: | mire/swamp |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | late glacial |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collection method comments: report is of "recent excavations"
material is in the Dayton Museum of Natural History collection | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 82996 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-08-05 16:07:24 | Last modified: | 2010-01-14 18:47:36 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-08-05 16:07:24 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 27886. | R. S. Mills and J. E. Guilday. 1972. First record of Cervalces scotti Ledekker from the Pleistocene of Ohio. American Midland Naturalist 88(1):255 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |