Clinch Mountain: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Virginia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Artiodactyla indet.
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Bartlett 1994 | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus sp.
Brookes 1828
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Mammut sp.
Blumenbach 1799
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Bartlett 1994 | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Virginia | County: | Russell |
| Coordinates: | 36.9° North, 82.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.9° North, 82.1° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Altitude: | 670 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
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 |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Moccasin |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | pebbly,brown,gray silty,sandy claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Sandy silt and silty clay layers dominated this organic-rich unit, although several beds 1 to 2 m thick contained abundant cobble to pebble-size rock fragments; numerous boulders appeared in the lowest meter of the deposit lying on bedrock. | |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | high glacial |
| Geology comments: the study area remained boreal from >44,000 to 29,100 14C yr
BP. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | all macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 94426 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | S. Tucker, M. Shalap |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-02-19 11:41:04 | Last modified: | 2010-02-20 23:58:17 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-02-19 11:41:04 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 32107. | G. R. Whittecar, T. C. Wynn, and C. S. Bartlett, Jr. 2007. Paleoenvironmental analysis of a middle Wisconsinan biota site, southwestern Virginia, U.S.A. Quaternary Research 68:133-140 [M. Uhen/S. Tucker] |
Secondary references:
| 35720 | C. S. Bartlett. 1994. Elephant Hunting in Virginia: The Ratliff Pleistocene Fossil Site, Russell County, Virginia. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America 26(4):3-3 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap] |