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
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 | |
"Cervus americanus" = Alces alces, Odocoileus virginianus
"Cervus americanus" = Alces alces Linnaeus 1758 moose
Odocoileus virginianus Zimmermann 1780 white-tailed deer | |
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
Mammut americanum Kerr 1792 American mastodon |