Where: Alamosa County, Colorado (37.7° N, 105.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 105.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• presumably latest Pleistocene based on association with Folsom artifacts

•"Buffalo remains were sifted until entirely sterile sand was encountered" at a depth of "two feet" in one place but "less than one feet" in most places

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pond; poorly lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: anthropogenic

Collected by C. T. Hurst, A. Pearsall, G. Sutherland, C. Erickson, L. Dunnells in 1941; reposited in the AMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), sieve,

• specimens were "sent to the American Museum of Natural History for identification" by W. Granger and G. G. Simpson

•"Orthodox excavations were impossible [because the] pure sand... could only be handled by 'skimming' and screening.

Primary reference: C. T. Hurst. 1943. A Folsom site in a mountain valley of Colorado. American Antiquity 8(3):250-253 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 93553: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 23.01.2010

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