Cave ACb-3 Unit D: Irvingtonian, Alabama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Dasypus bellus (Simpson 1929)
Mammalia - Megalonychidae
Megalonyx jeffersonii (Desmarest 1822)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tapirus sp. Brisson 1762
Mammalia - Cervidae
Odocoileus virginianus (Zimmermann 1780)
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Mylohyus nasutus (Leidy 1868)
    = Mylohyus fossilis Leidy 1860
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Lynx rufus (Schreber 1777)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
? Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Sciuridae indet. Gray 1821
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Colbert
Coordinates: 34.7° North, 87.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.7° North, 87.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Irvingtonian
Age range of interval:1.40000 - 0.21000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:ACb-3 Local bed:2
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:U series date of 0.172 +/- 0.010 Ma
overlies unit H
Metadata
Database number:20281
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-09-27 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:44
Access level:the public Released:1993-09-27 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
2254. R. S. Lively, G. L. Bell, and J. P. Lamb. 1992. Uranium-series dates from travertines associated with a late Pleistocene megafauna in ACb-3, Alabama. Southeastern Geology 33(1):1-8 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]