Ceadar Lake, Minneapolis: Pleistocene, Minnesota

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas columbi Falconer 1857
1 specimen
recombined as Mammuthus columbi
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Castoroides ohioensis Foster 1838
Cahn 1932
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Minnesota County:Hennepin
Coordinates: 45.0° North, 93.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.0° North, 93.1° 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: not reported
Lithology description: drift
Environment:glacial
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:93509
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2010-01-20 07:37:04 Last modified:2010-01-20 09:37:04
Access level:the public Released:2010-01-20 07:37:04
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]

Secondary references:

74680 A. R. Cahn. 1932. Records and distribution of the fossil Beaver, Castoroides ohioensis. Journal of Mammalogy 13(3):229-241 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]