The First American Bank Site Feature 9: Holocene, Tennessee

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Bufonidae
Bufo sp. Laurenti 1768
Reptilia - Serpentes
Serpentes indet. Linnaeus 1758
Reptilia - Crotalidae
Crotalus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Agkistrodon sp. (Huxley 1865)
nomen dubium belonging to Crocopoda
Reptilia - Colubridae
Lampropeltis doliata
"Lampropeltis doliata group"
Coluber sp. Linnaeus 1758
Pituophis sp. Holbrook 1842
Natricinae indet. Bonaparte 1838
Carphophis sp. Gervais 1840
Reptilia - Gruiformes - Rallidae
Fulica americana Gmelin 1789
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Sciurus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841
Pitymys sp. McMurtrie 1831
synonym of Microtus
"Pitymys McMurrie (or Pedomys Baird)"
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Sylvilagus cf. floridanus (Allen 1890)
Mammalia - Talpidae
Scalopus aquaticus (Linnaeus 1758)
"S. a. cf. machrinus"
Mammalia - Soricidae
Cryptotis parva (Say 1823)
Mammalia - Didelphimorphia
Didelphis virginiana Kerr 1792
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Tennessee County:Davidson
Coordinates: 36.2° North, 86.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.2° North, 86.8° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:133 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Holocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Holocene
Age range of interval:0.01170 - 0.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: "Two C14 dates, derived from the human skeletal material, date this association: 2,390 +/- 145 years B.P. (UGA #334) and 1,690 +/- 115 years B.P. (GX 2471)." (p. 84).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "siliciclastic"
Environment:fissure fill
Geology comments: Fissure-fill sediments exposed (and partially disturbed) during excavation of First American Bank site
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated minor elements:all
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:63428
Authorizer:C. Bell Enterer:C. Bell
Modifier:C. Bell Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-08-14 15:24:14 Last modified:2006-08-14 18:48:07
Access level:the public Released:2006-08-14 15:24:14
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

18245. J. E. Guilday. 1977. Sabertooth cat, Smilodon floridanus (Leidy), and associated fauna from a Tennessee Cave (40 Dv 40), the First American Bank site. Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 52(3):84-94 [J. Head/J. Head]