Canton Lake: Rancholabrean, Oklahoma
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Cuvier 1795
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"small, freshwater gastropods" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus columbi
(Falconer 1857)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Smilodon fatalis
(Leidy 1868)
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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] |