Where: Dukes County, Massachusetts (41.3° N, 70.8° W: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 70.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• "probably Pleistocene" Kortesky & Ray, 2008 p. 121
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported
Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: O. P. Hay. 1923. The Pleistocene of North America and its vertebrated animals from the states east of the Mississippi River and from the Canadian provinces east of longitude 95 degrees. Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication 322:1-499 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 88532: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 14.04.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Alca impennis" = Pinguinus impennis2
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