McMillan Farm (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Freeborn County, Minnesota (43.8° N, 93.2° W: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 93.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; claystone and sandstone

• gravel to sand and clay with a thick muck soil at the top; stiff blue clay

Primary reference: C. R. Stauffer. 1924. The fossil elephants of Minnesota. Science 60(1541):40-41 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 93504: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 20.01.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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