Wilderness Pit (Pleistocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.9° N, 4.2° W: paleocoordinates 55.9° N, 4.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• Measured section surveyed in 1964

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified sandstone

• sand and gravel on conveyor

Size class: macrofossils

• Left humerus, lacking proximal head, and left lateral condyle

Preservation: soft parts, original phosphate

Collected in 1963

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Picked off conveyor, so exact level unknown

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 163750: 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
left humerus; Hunterian Museum V.5958