The First American Bank Site Feature 1: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Tennessee

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes
Osteichthyes indet. Huxley 1880
1 specimen
unidentified fish scale
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Sylvilagus cf. floridanus (Allen 1890)
7 specimens
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
30 specimens
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Mylohyus nasutus (Leidy 1868)
2 specimens
Mammalia - Bovidae
Ovibovini indet.
1 specimen
Ovibovini sp.
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Smilodon floridanus (Leidy 1889)
29 specimens
synonym of Smilodon fatalis
Reptilia - Crotalidae
Crotalus sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
Reptilia - Colubridae
Coluber sp. Linnaeus 1758
2 specimens
Pituophis sp. Holbrook 1842
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]