Judicial Ditch Number 13: Pleistocene, Minnesota
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Elephas columbi
Falconer 1857
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1 specimen | ||||||
recombined as Mammuthus columbi | |||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Minnesota | County: | Faribault |
Coordinates: | 43.6° North, 94.0° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 43.6° North, 93.8° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | sandy claystone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: clay and sandy layers | |
Environment: | lacustrine - small |
Glacial or sequence phase: | interglacial |
Geology comments: post-glacial lake bed |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Disassociated major elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 93502 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2010-01-20 07:15:03 | Last modified: | 2010-01-20 09:15:03 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-01-20 07:15:03 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
31642. | C. R. Stauffer. 1924. The fossil elephants of Minnesota. Science 60(1541):40-41 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |