Turin (Pleistocene of the United States)
Also known as Turin Pit; Elliott Pit
Where: Monona County, Iowa (42.0° N, 96.0° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 42.2° N, 95.6° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Irvingtonian (1.4 - 0.2 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. S. Rhodes, II and H. A. Semken, Jr. 1986. Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences 93(3) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 20556: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
• Turin Pit and Elliott Pit are the same locality
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Didelphis sp. Linnaeus 1758 large American opossum | |
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Panthera sp. Oken 1816 cat | |
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Ursus americanus Pallas 1780 black bear | |
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Procyon sp. Storr 1780 raccoon | |
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Taxidea taxus Schreber 1778 American badger
Lontra canadensis Schreber 1776 North American river otter | |
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Rangifer sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827 reindeer
Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832 New World deer | |
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? Euceratherium collinum Furlong and Sinclair 1904 shrub ox | |
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Platygonus sp. Leconte 1848 peccary | |
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Camelops sp. Leidy 1854 camel | |
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Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
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Geomys sp. Rafinesque 1817 pocket gopher | |
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Castoroides ohioensis Foster 1838 giant beaver
Castor canadensis Kuhl 1820 American beaver | |
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Ondatra sp. Link 1795 muskrat
Microtinae indet. rodent | |
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Lepus sp. Linnaeus 1758 hare
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867 cottontail rabbit | |
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Paramylodon harlani Owen 1840 Harlan's ground sloth | |
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Megalonyx jeffersonii Desmarest 1822 Jefferson's ground sloth | |
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Mammut americanum Kerr 1792 American mastodon | |
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Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828 mammoth | |