Where: Beaverhead County, Montana (44.6° N, 112.6° W: paleocoordinates 44.6° N, 112.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• "faunal remains were recovered from at least two ages" represented by stratum D ("ca. 27,000 BP and 22,000 BP") and stratum B and upper stratum A ("ca. 40,000 BP")
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1988, 1989
• Museum of the Rockies collection
Primary reference: R. G. Dundas. 2005. The Late Pleistocene vertebrate fauna. In C. Hill, L. B. Davis (eds.), The Merrell Locality & Centennial Valley, Southwest Montana, Pleistocene Geology, Paleontology & Prehistoric Archaeology, Bureau of Land Management Cultural Resources Series No. 4, Montana State Office 79-90 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 93182: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 06.01.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
cf. Rana sp. Linnaeus 1758 frog | |
Aves | |
Anatidae indet. Vigors 1825 waterfowl
Anas cf. platyrhynchos Linnaeus 1758 mallard
"Olar buccinator" = Cygnus buccinator Richardson 1832 trumpeter swan | |
Mammalia | |
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854 camel | |
cf. Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832 New World deer | |
cf. Antilocapra americana Ord 1815 pronghorn | |
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827 bison | |
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
"Homotherium serum" = Homotherium latidens
"Homotherium serum" = Homotherium latidens Owen 1846 scimitar toothed cat | |
Canis lupus Linnaeus 1758 gray wolf
Canis latrans Say 1823 coyote | |
Ursus sp. Linnaeus 1758 bear | |
Castor canadensis Kuhl 1820 American beaver | |
Lemmiscus curtatus Cope 1868 sagebrush vole
Ondatra zibethicus Linnaeus 1766 muskrat | |
Spermophilus sp. Cuvier 1825 ground squirrel | |
Mammuthus columbi Falconer 1857 Columbian mammoth | |
Gnathostomata | |
Actinopterygii indet. ray-finned fish "Osteichthyes" and compares "best with the Catosomitdae... and Cyprinidae"
| |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam |