Fix Me (Pleistocene of the United States)
Where: Lowndes County, Mississippi (33.5° N, 88.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 88.4° W)
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When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, silty, sandy claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace
Primary reference: J. A. Holman. 1980. Paleoclimatic Implications of Pleistocene Herpetofaunas of Eastern and Central North America. Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies 8:131-140 [M. Uhen/L. Harfoush]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 164395: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Lina Harfoush on 02.12.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Graptemys sp. Agassiz 1857 map turtle
Terrapene sp. Merrem 1820 box turtle
Terrapene carolina Linnaeus 1758 common box turtle | |
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Geochelone sp. Fitzinger 1835 turtle
Geochelone crassicutata turtle | |
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Alligator mississippiensis Daudin 1801 American alligator | |