Where: Charleston County, South Carolina (32.7° N, 80.1° W: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 80.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; black siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

• lower jaws, tusks, and some postcrania

Collected by C. U. Shephard, Jr. in 1869

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying,

• Amherst College collection

•found "while stripping to get to the [underlying] phosphate deposit"

Primary reference: F. B. Loomis. 1918. An unusual mastodon. American Journal of Science 45:438-444 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 101396: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.12.2010

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