St. Paul Island, northeast point: Late Pleistocene, Alaska
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus primigenius
(Blumenbach 1799)
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Alaska | County: | Pribilof Islands |
| Coordinates: | 47.0° North, 7.1° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 47.0° North, 7.1° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.129 - 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 |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 226211 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2022-06-24 07:22:22 | Last modified: | 2022-07-01 07:12:54 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2022-06-24 07:22:22 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 82048. | C. E. Ray. 1971. Polar bear and mammoth on the Pribilof Islands. Arctic 24(1):9-18 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |