Bogue Chitto: Pleistocene, Alabama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut americanum (Kerr 1792)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas columbi Falconer 1857
recombined as Mammuthus columbi
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Castoroides sp. Foster 1838
Parmalee and Graham 2002
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Dallas
Coordinates: 32.4° North, 87.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.4° North, 87.1° 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
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:82056
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-07-21 14:17:22 Last modified:2008-07-21 17:21:21
Access level:the public Released:2008-07-21 14:17:22
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
27182. J. T. Thurmond and D. E. Jones. 1981. Fossil Vertebrates of Alabama 1-244 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

28175 P. W. Parmalee and R. W. Graham. 2002. Additional records of the giant beaver, Castoroides, from the Mid-South: Alabama, Tennessee, and South Carolina. Smithsonian Contribution to Paleobiology 93:65-71 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]