Clinch Mountain (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Russell County, Virginia (36.9° N, 82.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.9° N, 82.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Moccasin Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; pebbly, brown, gray, silty, sandy claystone

• the study area remained boreal from >44,000 to 29,100 14C yr

•BP.

• Sandy silt and silty clay layers dominated this organic-rich unit, although several beds 1 to 2 m thick contained abundant cobble to pebble-size rock fragments; numerous boulders appeared in the lowest meter of the deposit lying on bedrock.

Size class: macrofossils

• portions of ribs, tusks, teeth and leg bones of mammoth

•and mastodon

Primary reference: G. R. Whittecar, T. C. Wynn, and C. S. Bartlett, Jr. 2007. Paleoenvironmental analysis of a middle Wisconsinan biota site, southwestern Virginia, U.S.A. Quaternary Research 68:133-140 [M. Uhen/S. Tucker]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94426: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Samantha Tucker on 19.02.2010, edited by Margaret Shalap

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828 mammoth
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut sp. Blumenbach 1799 mastodon