Old Kankakee Marsh (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: LaPorte County, Indiana (41.3° N, 85.9° W: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 85.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• "glacial"

•none of the fossils "occurred at a greater depth than ten feet"

Environment/lithology: lacustrine

• "deposited in the old glacial Lake Kankakee"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Henry Duncker

Primary reference: M. W. Lyon, Jr. 1931. A small collection of Pleistocene mammals from Laporte County, Indiana. American Midland Naturalist 12(10):406-410 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 74142: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 24.07.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
"Cervus americanus" = Alces alces, Odocoileus virginianus
"Cervus americanus" = Alces alces Linnaeus 1758 moose
Odocoileus virginianus Zimmermann 1780 white-tailed deer
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut americanum Kerr 1792 American mastodon