Elmira (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Chemung County, New York (42.1° N, 76.8° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 42.2° N, 76.3° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gravel

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D. W. Payn; reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: O. P. Hay. 1919. On some proboscideans of the State of New York. Science 49(1268):377-379 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 222854: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.10.2021

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Elephas columbi" = Mammuthus columbi
"Elephas columbi" = Mammuthus columbi Falconer 1857 Columbian mammoth
tooth