Gay Mine (Pleistocene) (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Bingham County, Idaho (43.0° N, 112.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 112.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rancholabrean (0.3 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; phosphatic lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. C. Dooley, E. Scott, J. Green, K. B. Springer, B. S. Booley and G. J. Smith. 2019. Mammut pacificus sp. nov., a newly recognized species of mastodon from the Pleistocene of western North America. PeerJ 7:e6614 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 200341: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 28.03.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut pacificus Dooley et al. 2019 mastodon