The First American Bank Site Feature 1: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Tennessee
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes
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Osteichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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1 specimen | |||||||||
unidentified fish scale | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Sylvilagus cf. floridanus
(Allen 1890)
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7 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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30 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Mylohyus nasutus
(Leidy 1868)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Ovibovini indet.
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Ovibovini sp.
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Smilodon floridanus
(Leidy 1889)
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29 specimens | |||||||||
synonym of Smilodon fatalis | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Crotalidae
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Crotalus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Colubridae
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Coluber sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Pituophis sp.
Holbrook 1842
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1 specimen | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Tennessee | County: | Davidson |
Coordinates: | 36.2° North, 86.8° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 36.2° North, 86.8° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Altitude: | 133 meters | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: 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) |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "siliciclastic" |
Environment: | fissure fill |
Geology comments: Fissure-fill sediments exposed (and partially disturbed) during excavation of First American Bank site |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 63424 | ||
Authorizer: | C. Bell | Enterer: | C. Bell | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2006-08-14 15:20:37 | Last modified: | 2006-08-14 18:26:23 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-08-14 15:20:36 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
18245. | 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] |