Town Creek (Pleistocene to of the United States)

Also known as Site 21

Where: Monroe County, Mississippi (33.7° N, 88.6° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 88.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• "Rancholabrean and/or Holocene"

Environment/lithology: fluvial; brown claystone

• "alluvial deposits"
• "vertebrates are usually found in brown clay just above" the Cretaceous Selma chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float),

• most fossils were "found in the banks and channels of small, intra-Black Belt streams"

Primary reference: B. Kurtén and J. M. Kaye. 1982. Late Quaternary Carnivora from the Balck Belt, Mississippi. Boreas 11(1):47-52 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 93344: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 14.01.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Tremarctos floridanus Gidley 1928 Florida cave bear
 Carnivora - Canidae
Urocyon cinereoargenteus Schreber 1775 gray fox