Also known as Utah Paleontology Locality No. 42In066v
Where: Iron County, Utah (37.7° N, 113.6° W: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 113.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• date is on "unidentifiable organics" from a mammoth tooth fragment and is a "minimum-limiting date" because of possible contamination
•fossil is from the "uppermost four meters of sediment" in the pit, but this includes two distinct strata
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; unlithified, pebbly, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by D. Dial in 1996
Primary reference: P. R. Larson. 1999. The Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) from Escalante Valley, Iron County, Utah -- discovery and implications. In D. D. Gillette (ed.), Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah. Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 99-1:531-536 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 109026: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 10.05.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Mammuthus cf. columbi Falconer 1857 Columbian mammoth |