Painter Ranch: Pleistocene, Oklahoma
collected by Mr. Painter

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas columbi Falconer 1857
recombined as Mammuthus columbi
"E. primigenius columbii"
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Dinobastis serus n. gen., n. sp. Cope 1893
synonym of Homotherium latidens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Oklahoma County:Kingfisher
Coordinates: 36.1° North, 97.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.1° North, 97.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: "Plistocene"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red claystone
Lithology description: the bones were "stained red by the coloring iron of the Permian clay, and were covered by a thin layer of it" (Cope 1894)
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:ANSP
Collectors:Mr. Painter
Collection method comments: Academy of Natural Sciences collection
specimens "were in possession of a rancher... Mr. Painter" (Cope 1894)
Taxonomic list comments:see Cope 1894 for locality information
Metadata
Also known as:Hennessey
Database number:93557
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2010-01-24 19:44:52 Last modified:2010-01-24 21:44:52
Access level:the public Released:2010-01-24 19:44:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
31687. E. D. Cope. 1893. A new Plistocene sabre-tooth. American Naturalist 27:896-897 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]