Alva Gravel Pit (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Woods County, Oklahoma (36.8° N, 98.7° W: paleocoordinates 36.8° N, 98.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• "Pleistocene"

Environment/lithology: fluvial; gravel

• no details given
• "gravel bed"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by T. C. Carter

• specimen is in the University of Oklahoma University Museum collection

Primary reference: C. S. Johnston. 1935. An extension in the range of fossil peccaries. American Midland Naturalist 16(1):117-119 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79656: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 17.03.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Mylohyus nasutus
Mylohyus nasutus Leidy 1868 peccary