Where: Monroe County, Tennessee (35.5° N, 84.4° W: paleocoordinates 35.6° N, 84.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• "a typical Pleistocene fauna of this region... certainly post-Pliocene and pre-historic"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; red claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G. G. Simpson in 1940; reposited in the AMNH

Collection methods: salvage,

• some bones were "picked up by workmen in the quarry" and others were found "in place" during a visit by Simpson

Primary reference: G. G. Simpson. 1941. Discovery of jaguar bones and footprints in a cave in Tennessee. American Museum Novitates 1131:1-12 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93253: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 09.01.2010

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