Hazen Mammoth: Pleistocene, Arkansas
collected by W. C. Clevenger, W. Evans, J. A. Scholtz 1965
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus columbi
(Falconer 1857)
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Arkansas | County: | Prairie |
Coordinates: | 34.8° North, 91.6° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 34.8° North, 91.4° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 2.58800 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: skeleton was found "6.7 m (22 ft) below the surface and were confined" to a single layer age not discussed in detail, implied to be from "the late part of the Pleistocene" based on age of most M. columbi finds |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | red unlithified argillaceous siltstone |
Lithology description: "red clayey silt... overlain by deposits of alluvial sand and clay" | |
Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Articulated whole bodies: | none |
Associated major elements: | some |
Disassociated major elements: | none |
Disassociated minor elements: | none |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | salvage,selective quarrying,field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
Collectors: | W. C. Clevenger, W. Evans, J. A. Scholtz | Collection dates: | 1965 |
Collection method comments: University of Arkansas Museum collection
"uncovered in a borrow pit while contractors were removing dirt to be usd for the construction" of Interstate 40 |
Metadata
Database number: | 92494 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2009-11-16 20:18:01 | Last modified: | 2009-11-16 22:18:01 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-11-16 20:18:01 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
31181. | W. L. Puckette and J. A. Scholtz. 1974. The Hazen Mammoth (Mammuthus columbi), Prairie County, Arkansas. Arkansas Academy of Science Proceedings 28:53-56 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |