Montrose: Pleistocene, Colorado

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephantidae columbi
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Colorado County:Montrose
Coordinates: 38.5° North, 108.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.5° North, 107.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:8000 feet
Geographic resolution:local area
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
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Pleistocene deposits of coarse gravel, silt, and boulders of all sizes and appear to be glacial moraines. These must sit on top of the Colorado Group/Graneros Fm. as listed because the latter are Cretaceous in age (note added by M. Carrano).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:coarse silty gravel
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Pleistocene deposits of coarse gravel, silt, and boulders of all sizes and appear to be glacial moraines
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:salvage,selective quarrying,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: construction of large ditch in the mountains led to collecting
Metadata
Database number:94424
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:S. Tucker
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2010-02-19 10:56:55 Last modified:2012-01-31 15:25:12
Access level:the public Released:2010-02-19 10:56:55
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
32105. H. J. Cook. 1930. Occurrence of Mammoth and Giant Bison in Glacial Moraines in the High Mountains of Colorado. Science 72(1855):68-68 [M. Uhen/S. Tucker]