Where: Talbot County, Maryland (38.7° N, 76.1° W: paleocoordinates 38.7° N, 75.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by S. R. Harrison; reposited in the AMNH
Primary reference: E. D. Cope. 1870. Synopsis of the Extinct Batrachia, Reptilia and Aves of North America. Part II. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 14:105-235 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 127111: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 25.04.2012, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Cariacus virginianus" = Odocoileus, Cervus canadensis
"Cariacus virginianus" = Odocoileus New World deer
Cervus canadensis Erxleben 1777 elk | |
"Elephas americanus" = Mammut americanum
"Elephas americanus" = Mammut americanum Kerr 1792 American mastodon | |
"Elephas columbi" = Mammuthus columbi
"Elephas columbi" = Mammuthus columbi Falconer 1857 Columbian mammoth | |
Reptilia | |
"Cistudo eurypygia n. sp." = Terrapene eurypygia
"Cistudo eurypygia n. sp." = Terrapene eurypygia Cope 1870 box turtle | |
Chelydra serpentina Linnaeus 1758 Common snapping turtle |