Bailer Farm (Pleistocene of the United States)
Where: Midland County, Michigan (43.8° N, 84.5° W: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 84.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• believed to derive from the ice free, mid-Wisconsinan Plum Point Interstadial and to have been redeposited during stream cutting about 3,300 years ago
Environment/lithology: glacial
Primary reference: R. O. Kapp. 1970. A 24,000-year-old Jefferson mammoth from Midland County, Michigan. Michigan Academician 3(2):95-99 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 63217: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 09.08.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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Mammalia | |
"Mammuthus jeffersoni" = Mammuthus columbi
"Mammuthus jeffersoni" = Mammuthus columbi Falconer 1857 Columbian mammoth |