Crofthead Pit SE corner (Pleistocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.9° N, 4.2° W: paleocoordinates 56.0° N, 4.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified, brown sandstone

• Sharp brown sand

Size class: macrofossils

• abraded distal fragment of left tibia

Collected in 1932

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: W. D. I. Rolfe. 1966. Woolly rhinoceras from the Scottish Pleistocene. Scottish Journal of Geology 2(3):253-258 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/A. McGowan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 163749: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 10.11.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Coelodonta antiquitatis
Coelodonta antiquitatis Blumenbach 1799 wooly rhino
distal end left tibia; Glasgow City Museum G66.29.b