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
Mammuthus columbi (Falconer 1857)
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]