Metompkin Island: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Virginia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Castoroides ohioensis
Foster 1838
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Eshelman and Grady 1986 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Eschrichtiidae
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Eschrichtius glaucus
(Cope 1868)
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Eshelman and Grady 1986 | ||||||
synonym of Eschrichtius robustus | |||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Odobenidae
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Odobenus rosmarus
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Eshelman and Grady 1986 | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Virginia | County: | Accomack |
Coordinates: | 37.8° North, 75.5° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 37.8° North, 75.5° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | shoreface |
Geology comments: ocean beach
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Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 73486 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2007-06-18 11:25:14 | Last modified: | 2011-04-14 14:41:26 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-06-18 11:25:14 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
35837. | C. O. Handley and C. P. Patton. 1947. Wild Mammals of Virginia 1-220 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
1461 | R. Eshelman and F. Grady. 1986. Quaternary vertebrate localities of Virginia and their avian and mammalian fauna. Virginia Division of Mineral Resources, Publication 75:43-70 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |