Where: Butler County, Ohio (39.5° N, 84.3° W: paleocoordinates 39.5° N, 84.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• found at "twenty-three feet from the surface... lying on what appeared to be a nest of petrified sticks"
•"late Pleistocene" according to Guilday 1968
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gravel
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: salvage, quarrying,
Primary reference: G. S. Miller, Jr. 1899. A new fossil bear from Ohio. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 13:53-56 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 74139: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 24.07.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Ursus procerus n. sp." = Ursus arctos
"Ursus procerus n. sp." = Ursus arctos Linnaeus 1758 brown bear |