Canton Lake: Rancholabrean, Oklahoma

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
"small, freshwater gastropods"
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus columbi (Falconer 1857)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Smilodon fatalis (Leidy 1868)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Oklahoma County:Blaine
Coordinates: 36.1° North, 98.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.1° North, 98.6° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Rancholabrean
Age range of interval:0.30000 - 0.01200 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "The Quaternary deposit may represent the third terrace of the North Canadian River... which is thought to reflect the Illinoian glacial stage."
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: siltstone
Secondary lithology:gray,green claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "deposit... incorporates clasts of sand, silt, and clay... [with] a green-gray clay within the bone-bearing deposit."
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:OMNH V1085
Database number:70136
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-03-18 21:11:24 Last modified:2007-03-18 23:11:24
Access level:the public Released:2007-03-18 21:11:22
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

23553. C. L. Gordon and N. J. Czaplewski. 1998. Second record of the Pleistocene saber-toothed cat, Smilodon fatalis, in Oklahoma. Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science 78:133-135 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]