Ley Creek, Onondaga Lake (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Onondaga County, New York (43.1° N, 76.2° W: paleocoordinates 43.1° N, 75.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; marl

• "all the bones were secured during excavations which reached from the surface through the peaty layers into the marl below. The specimens were found immediately above the marl at a depth of about 10 feet."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1903

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: C. A. Hartnagel and S. C. Sherman. 1922. The mastodons, mammoths and other Pleistocene mammals of New York State, being a descriptive record of all known occurrences. New York State Museum Bulletin 241-242:1-110 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 222867: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.10.2021

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Odocoileus sp.
Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832 New World deer
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus americanus
Ursus americanus Pallas 1780 black bear