Big Pigeon River (Pleistocene of the United States)

Also known as near Newport

Where: Cocke County, Tennessee (35.9° N, 83.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 82.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1938. Fossil snakes of North America. Geological Society of America Special Paper (9)1-96 [J. Head/J. Head]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 125974: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 28.03.2012, edited by Terri Cleary

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Crotalidae
Crotalus sp. Linnaeus 1758 rattlesnake
USNM 13686, 18 thoracic vertebrae and a few rib fragments