Lehner Mammoth Site: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Arizona
collected by E. F. Lehner, E. W. Haury, E. Antevs, J. F. Lance, E. B. Sayles, W. W. Wasley, W. J. Beeson, R. E. Gerald, J. S. Griffith, E. A. Morris, A. H. Rohn 1955, 1956
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus columbi
(Falconer 1857)
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Lance 1959 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bison sp.
Hamilton-Smith 1827
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Lance 1959 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Tapiridae
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Tapirus sp.
Brisson 1762
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Lance 1959 | |||||||||
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= Tapirus cf. merriami
Frick 1921
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Agenbroad and Downs 1984 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Lance 1959 | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Arizona | County: | Cochise |
| Coordinates: | 31.4° North, 110.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 31.4° North, 110.1° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Altitude: | 4190 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 | ||
| Age estimate: | 12000 ± 450 to 10900 ± 450 YBP (14C) |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "radiocarbon measurements of hearth charcoal" respectively were 10,900 +/- 450 and 12,000 +/- 450 (Arizona), 11,180 +/- 140 (Copenhagen), and 11,290 +/- 500 B.P. (Michigan), and the main bed was "a little over 1 m" at its deepest | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | fine,white unlithified sandstone |
| Lithology description: "partly... a white, uniform, fine sand... locally grading to silt and clay... partly of sand mixed with gravel... and partly of a redeposited reddish clay with caliche inclusions... which was moderately interfingered with gravel" but only "the fine white sand was deposited during the time of the mammoth hunts and perhaps for a short time afterwards" | |
| Environment: | fine channel fill |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | late glacial |
| Geology comments: "on and in gravels of a former perennial stream" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | -multiple events |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Articulated whole bodies: | none |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor 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: | E. F. Lehner, E. W. Haury, E. Antevs, J. F. Lance, E. B. Sayles, W. W. Wasley, W. J. Beeson, R. E. Gerald, J. S. Griffith, E. A. Morris, A. H. Rohn | Collection dates: | 1955, 1956 |
| Collection method comments: University of Arizona collection | |||
Metadata
| Also known as: | Arizona EE:12:1 | ||
| Database number: | 93275 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-01-12 10:28:22 | Last modified: | 2010-01-12 13:49:57 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-01-12 10:28:22 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 31539. | E. W. Haury, E. B. Sayles, and W. W. Wasley. 1959. The Lehner mammoth site, southeastern Arizona. American Antiquity 25(1):2-30 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 36738 | L. D. Agenbroad and W. R. Downs. 1984. A robust tapir from Northern Arizona. Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science 19(2):91-99 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 31540 | J. F. Lance. 1959. Faunal remains from the Lehner mammoth site. American Antiquity 25(1):35-42 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |