Charlotte: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Vermont

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Monodontidae
Delphinus vermontana Thompson 1850
    = Beluga vermontana Thompson 1850
Thompson 1853
    = Delphinapterus leucas Pallas 1776
Harington 1988
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Vermont County:Chittenden
Coordinates: 44.3° North, 73.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.3° North, 73.3° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:excellent
Articulated whole bodies:all
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:51003
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-05-26 08:54:48 Last modified:2009-02-27 11:22:37
Access level:the public Released:2005-05-26 08:54:48
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

13628. Z. Thompson. 1850. An account of some fossil bones fouund in Vermont, in making excavations for the Rutland and Burlington railroad. American Journal of Science and Arts 9:256-263 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

33072 C. E. Harington. 1977. Marine mammals in the Champlain Sea and the Great Lakes. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 288:508-537 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
13616 C. R. Harington. 1988. Marine mammals of the Champlain Sea, and the problem of whales in Michigan. Geological Association of Canada Special Paper 35:225-240 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
35031 O. P. Hay. 1923. The Pleistocene of North America and its vertebrated animals from the states east of the Mississippi River and from the Canadian provinces east of longitude 95 degrees. Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication 322:1-499 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
13615 Z. Thompson. 1853. Descriptive and Physical Geography of Vermont. History of Vermont, Natural, Civil and Statistical 11-20 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]