Where: West Feliciana County, Louisiana (31.0° N, 91.4° W: paleocoordinates 31.0° N, 91.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• "late Quaternary... the stream deposits that probably [originally] contained the Symbos skull were laid down between >=38,000 and 3,000 yrs B.P.... a middle to late Wisconsinan age seems most reasonable"

Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by K. C. Corkum in 1972

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• "found almost completely exposed"

•specimen is reposited in the Lousiana State University Museum of Zoology

Primary reference: J. N. McDonald and K. C. Corkum. 1987. A woodland musk ox, Symbos cavifrons (Artiodactyla: Bovidae), from Bayou Sara, Louisiana. The Southwestern Naturalist 32(1):139-143 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 83063: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 06.08.2008

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