Also known as West of Fremont
Where: Sandusky County, Ohio (41.4° N, 83.2° W: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 83.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• "about 15 ft below the top of a sand hill... considered to be a part of the Lake Warren beach ridge... Fosyth (1959) provides an age of 9,640+ years for the Lake Warren beach ridge"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: dune; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C. Innis, T. Hole
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Bowling Green State University collection
Primary reference: R. D. Hoare, J. R. Coash, C. Innis and T. Hole. 1964. Pleistocene peccary Platygonus compressus Leconte from Sandusky County, Ohio. Ohio Journal of Science 64(3):207-214 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 79634: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 16.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Platygonus compressus Leconte 1848 peccary | |
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse |