Galena (Leidy Collection): Pleistocene, Illinois

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Arvicola sp. Lacépède 1799
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Lepus sylvaticus Bachman 1837
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Illinois County:Jo Daviess
Coordinates: 42.4° North, 90.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.6° North, 90.0° West (Wright 2013)
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: 2.58 - 0.0117 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:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2010-01-20 16:10:44
Creative Commons license:CC0
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]