Where: Davidson County, Tennessee (36.2° N, 86.8° W: paleocoordinates 36.2° N, 86.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Feature 1 is the lowest of several features within fissue fill. "Two C14 dates from the Smilodon skeleton, one utilizing residual collagen in ri fragments, 9,410 +/- 155 years B.P. (I-6125), the second utilizing bone apatite from the humerus, 10,035 +/- 650 years B.P. (GX 2562), indicate a late Pleistocene age." (p. 85)

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J. E. Guilday. 1977. Sabertooth cat, Smilodon floridanus (Leidy), and associated fauna from a Tennessee Cave (40 Dv 40), the First American Bank site. Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 52(3):84-94 [J. Head/J. Head]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63424: authorized by Chris Bell, entered by Chris Bell on 14.08.2006

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