Galena (Leidy 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 based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; poorly lithified, ferruginous, brown sandstone

• "irregular fissures"
• from "a loose or more or less compact matrix of brown ferruginous sand" in "a deserted lead crevice" developed in "the cliff limestone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• collected at Leidy's "instigation" by "two miners" employed by Dr. E. D. Kittoe during Leidy's visit to Galena

Primary reference: J. Leidy. 1860. Observations on the extinct peccary of North America; being a sequel to "A memoir on the extinct Dicotylinae of America". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 11:97-105 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93526: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 20.01.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
"Dicotyles compressus" = Platygonus compressus
"Dicotyles compressus" = Platygonus compressus Leconte 1848 peccary
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
"Lepus sylvaticus" = Sylvilagus floridanus
"Lepus sylvaticus" = Sylvilagus floridanus Allen 1890 eastern cottontail
 Rodentia - Geomyidae
"Pseudostoma bursarius" = Geomys bursarius
"Pseudostoma bursarius" = Geomys bursarius Shaw 1800 plains pocket gopher
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
"Arctomys monax" = Marmota monax
"Arctomys monax" = Marmota monax Linnaeus 1758 groundhog
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Arvicola sp.
Arvicola sp. Lacépède 1799 vole