Charlotte: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Vermont
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Monodontidae
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Delphinus vermontana
Thompson 1850
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= Beluga vermontana
Thompson 1850
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Thompson 1853 | ||||||
= Delphinapterus leucas
Pallas 1776
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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] |