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
•BP.
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 | |
Mammalia | |
Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828 mammoth | |
Mammut sp. Blumenbach 1799 mastodon |