Also known as Shato Springs; MNA Locality 186-1

Where: Navajo County, Arizona (36.6° N, 110.7° W: paleocoordinates 36.6° N, 110.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• "The age of the Shonto fauna is 30,800 +/- 1,700 yr BP (GX-10493) based on a conventional carbon-14 date on a sample of bone from the sloth"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deltaic; claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1982

Collection methods: quarrying

• Museum of Northern Arizona collection

•"the sloth was found in situ"

Primary reference: H. G. McDonald, L. D. Agenbroad, and C. Manganaro Haden. 2004. Late Pleistocene mylodont sloth Paramylodon harlani (Mammalia: Xenarthra) from Arizona. Southwestern Naturalist 49(2):229-238 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85144: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 02.12.2008

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