Forrest City (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Frances County, Arkansas (35.0° N, 90.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 90.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

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

• post Wisconsin

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gravel

• sand & gravel

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. G. Hill. 1963. Castoroides ohioensis (Rodentia) in Arkansas. The Southwestern Naturalist 8(3):150-153 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 216259: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 09.12.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Odocoileus hemionus
Odocoileus hemionus Rafinesque 1817 mule deer
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Castoroides ohioensis
Castoroides ohioensis Foster 1838 giant beaver
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut americanum
Mammut americanum Kerr 1792 American mastodon
 Megatherioidea - Megalonychidae
"Megalonyx jeffersoni" = Megalonyx jeffersonii
"Megalonyx jeffersoni" = Megalonyx jeffersonii Desmarest 1822 Jefferson's ground sloth