Lake Warren Beach Ridge Peccaries (Pleistocene of the United States)

Also known as West of Fremont

Where: Sandusky County, Ohio (41.4° N, 83.2° W: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 83.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• "about 15 ft below the top of a sand hill... considered to be a part of the Lake Warren beach ridge... Fosyth (1959) provides an age of 9,640+ years for the Lake Warren beach ridge"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: dune; sandstone

• "probably a dune deposit, at least in part"
• "a sand deposit"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. Innis, T. Hole

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Bowling Green State University collection

Primary reference: R. D. Hoare, J. R. Coash, C. Innis and T. Hole. 1964. Pleistocene peccary Platygonus compressus Leconte from Sandusky County, Ohio. Ohio Journal of Science 64(3):207-214 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 79634: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 16.03.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Platygonus compressus Leconte 1848 peccary
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse