Where: Fall River County, South Dakota (43.4° N, 103.5° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 103.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• "a lense-shaped deposit" ranging from 14 to 21 m in thickness, with fossils occuring in "all the sedimentary phases"

•a radiocarbon date on in situ "bone apatite" of "26,075 +975 -790 B.P." is considered "minimal" although it is from "approximately one half of the fill depth"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: sinkhole; fine-grained, conglomeratic siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1974-1979, 1983

Collection methods: bulk, salvage, quarrying, sieve,

• "discovered accidentally during... land leveling in the summer of 1974 in preparation for a housing development" and there was extensive quarrying in later seasons as well as recovery of "microvertebrate remains" by "screen wash"

Primary reference: L. D. Agenbroad. 1985. The Hot Springs Mammoth Site, South Dakota: from salvage paleontology to in situ exhibit and research center. Dakoterra 2(2):121-139 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 93333: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 14.01.2010

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