Galena (Snyder Collection) (Pleistocene of the United States)
Where: Jo Daviess County, Illinois (42.4° N, 90.4° W: paleocoordinates 42.5° N, 90.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: karst; poorly lithified, ferruginous, brown sandstone
• all Galena-area Pleistocene collections apparently come from "loose or more or less compact matrix of brown ferruginous sand" within "lead-bearing crevices" devloped in a "cliff limestone" (Leidy 1860)
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Mr. Snyder
Primary reference: J. L. Leconte. 1848. Notice of five new species of fossil Mammalia from Illinois. American Journal of Science and Arts 5:102-106 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 87059: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.03.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Mammalia | |
Anomodon snyderi n. gen. n. sp.
Anomodon snyderi n. gen. n. sp. Leconte 1848 mole | |
"Procyon priscus n. sp." = Procyon lotor
"Procyon priscus n. sp." = Procyon lotor Linnaeus 1758 raccoon | |
"Sus americana" = Bison latifrons, Bison antiquus
"Sus americana" = Bison latifrons Harlan 1825 bison
Bison antiquus Leidy 1852 bison | |
"Platygonus compressus n. gen. n. sp." = Platygonus compressus, "Hyops depressifrons n. gen. n. sp." = Platygonus compressus, "Protochoerus prismaticus n. gen. n. sp." = Platygonus compressus
"Platygonus compressus n. gen. n. sp." = Platygonus compressus Leconte 1848 peccary
"Hyops depressifrons n. gen. n. sp." = Platygonus compressus Leconte 1848 peccary
"Protochoerus prismaticus n. gen. n. sp." = Platygonus compressus Leconte 1848 peccary | |
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Megalonyx jeffersonii Desmarest 1822 Jefferson's ground sloth | |