Owosso: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Michigan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Mammut americanum
(Kerr 1792)
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Castoroides ohioensis
Foster 1838
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Wood 1914 | 1 specimen | |||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Michigan | County: | Shiawassee |
| Coordinates: | 43.0° North, 84.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.0° North, 84.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
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 |
| Museum repositories: | UMMP |
Metadata
| Database number: | 63647 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-08-17 11:50:00 | Last modified: | 2020-12-09 17:25:04 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-08-17 11:50:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 18184. | L. M. Abraczinskas. 1993. Pleistocene proboscidean sites in Michigan: New records and an update on published sites. Michigan Academician 25(4):443-490 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 74680 | A. R. Cahn. 1932. Records and distribution of the fossil Beaver, Castoroides ohioensis. Journal of Mammalogy 13(3):229-241 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 31830 | D. C. Fisher. 1984. Taphonomic analysis of late Pleistocene mastodon occurrences: evidence of butchery by North American Paleo-Indians. Paleobiology 10(3):338-357 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 12687 | R. L. Wilson. 1967. The Pleistocene vertebrates of Michigan. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 52:197-234 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 68542 | N. A. Wood. 1914. Two undescribed specimens of Castoroides ohioensis Foster from Michigan. Science 22:759 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |