Fossilossa: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Georgia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus columbi
(Falconer 1857)
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Mammut americanum
(Kerr 1792)
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bison sp.
Hamilton-Smith 1827
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Megatheriidae
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Eremotherium laurillardi
(Lund 1842)
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| includes type of "Megatherium mirabile" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Mylodontidae
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Paramylodon harlani
(Owen 1840)
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Georgia | County: | Chatham |
| Coordinates: | 31.9° North, 81.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 31.9° North, 81.1° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | *Local age/stage: | Sangamonian |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | Zone: | oxygen isotope stage 5 |
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: no details given |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | marginal marine indet. |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | interglacial |
| Geology comments: no details given | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: this is a historical collecting locality first described in the 1820s and apparently not revisited by the authors | |
| Taxonomic list comments:said to fall in oxygen-isotope stage 5, i.e., Sangamonian | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 20591 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1998-09-21 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2007-09-18 13:14:55 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1998-09-21 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 1962. | R. C. Hulbert, Jr. and A. E. Pratt. 1998. Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) vertebrate faunas from coastal Georgia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(2):412-429 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |