Schaefer (Pleistocene of the United States)

Also known as 47Kn252

Where: Kenosha County, Wisconsin (42.5° N, 88.0° W: paleocoordinates 42.5° N, 88.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• ca. 13,530 to 11,200 yr B.P., a time near the end of the Wisconsinan period

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; unlithified claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: anthropogenic

Primary reference: E. Johnson. 2006. The taphonomy of mammoth localities in southeastern Wisconsin (USA). Quaternary International 143-143:58-78 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 176609: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.02.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus primigenius Blumenbach 1799 wooly mammoth