Galena (Leidy Collection): Pleistocene, Illinois
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Dicotyles compressus
(Leconte 1848)
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| original and current combination Platygonus compressus | |||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Arvicola sp.
Lacépède 1799
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Geomyidae
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Pseudostoma bursarius
(Shaw 1800)
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| recombined as Geomys bursarius | |||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Arctomys monax
(Linnaeus 1758)
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| recombined as Marmota monax | |||||||
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Lepus sylvaticus
Bachman 1837
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| replaced by Sylvilagus floridanus | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Illinois | County: | Jo Daviess |
| Coordinates: | 42.4° North, 90.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.5° North, 90.2° 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: | 2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | ferruginous,brown poorly lithified sandstone |
| Lithology description: from "a loose or more or less compact matrix of brown ferruginous sand" in "a deserted lead crevice" developed in "the cliff limestone" | |
| Environment: | fissure fill |
| Geology comments: "irregular fissures" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: collected at Leidy's "instigation" by "two miners" employed by Dr. E. D. Kittoe during Leidy's visit to Galena | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 93526 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-01-20 16:10:44 | Last modified: | 2010-01-20 18:10:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-01-20 16:10:44 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 31645. | J. Leidy. 1860. Observations on the extinct peccary of North America; being a sequel to "A memoir on the extinct Dicotylinae of America". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 11:97-105 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |