Where: Chatham County, Georgia (31.9° N, 81.1° W: paleocoordinates 31.9° N, 81.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: oxygen isotope stage 5 zone, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• no details given
Environment/lithology: marginal marine
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: this is a historical collecting locality first described in the 1820s and apparently not revisited by the authors
Primary reference: R. C. Hulbert, Jr. and A. E. Pratt. 1998. Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) vertebrate faunas from coastal Georgia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(2):412-429 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 20591: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.09.1998
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827 bison | |
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
Mammut americanum Kerr 1792 American mastodon | |
Mammuthus columbi Falconer 1857 Columbian mammoth | |
Paramylodon harlani Owen 1840 Harlan's ground sloth | |
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