Belding Peccary Herd (Pleistocene of the United States)

Also known as ETE Locality 1517, Belding Peccary Herd,

Where: Ionia County, Michigan (43.1° N, 85.2° W: paleocoordinates 43.1° N, 85.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

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

• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: .

Environment/lithology: loess; siltstone

• ETE sed env 1: eolian, ETE sed env 2: loess ETE event: ., ETE env comment: .
• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: .

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 478, ; ETE museum list:

Primary reference: W. I. Finch, F.C. Whitmore, Jr., and J.D. Sims. 1972. Stratigraphy, morphology, and paleoecology of a fossil peccary herd from western Kentucky. UniteD States Geological Survey Professional Paper 790:1-25 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 22643: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 27.03.2001

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Platygonus compressus
Platygonus compressus Leconte 1848 peccary
[ETE occurrence; species: Suidae] clearly P. compressus of Wagner 1903