Niagara River, Black Rock: Pleistocene, New York
collected 1921

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas primigenius Blumenbach 1799
4 specimens
teeth (only 1 collected, in Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences Museum)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New York County:Erie
Coordinates: 42.9° North, 78.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.0° North, 78.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 2.58 - 0.0117 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Disassociated major elements:all
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:salvage,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:1921
Collection method comments: "Three or four other teeth were observed by the workmen of the sand dredge, but only one was saved by one of the laborers, whose curiosity was aroused and who took the tooth to the museum."
Metadata
Also known as:Buffalo
Database number:222857
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2021-10-27 13:58:59 Last modified:2021-10-27 13:58:59
Access level:the public Released:2021-10-27 13:58:59
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
78409. C. A. Hartnagel and S. C. Sherman. 1922. The mastodons, mammoths and other Pleistocene mammals of New York State, being a descriptive record of all known occurrences. New York State Museum Bulletin 241-242:1-110 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]