Where: Crow Wing County, Minnesota (46.5° N, 94.1° W: paleocoordinates 46.5° N, 94.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• "the writer had concluded that it had died out before the oncoming of the Wisconsin ice sheet."
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; poorly lithified peat
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by F. W. Uhler in 1921; reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: salvage,
• "The bones were met within a peat swamp which forms a part of the overburden of the iron ore. This peat, about 6 or 8 feet deep, was being removed by hydraulic operations and thus the bones were exposed. "
Primary reference: O. P. Hay. 1923. Description of remains of Bison occidentalis from central Minnesota. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 63(2473):1-8 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 146403: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 25.06.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Bison occidentalis" = Bison antiquus, "Bison bison" = Bos bison
"Bison occidentalis" = Bison antiquus Leidy 1852 bison
"Bison bison" = Bos bison Linnaeus 1758 American bison | |
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