Hydro: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Oklahoma
collected by J. Kaufman 1936
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
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Proboscidea indet.
(Illiger 1811)
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Euceratherium bizzelli n. sp.
Stovall 1937
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| synonym of Euceratherium collinum | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Oklahoma | County: | Caddo |
| Coordinates: | 35.6° North, 98.6° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.5° North, 98.6° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: pit "is in high-level reworked river gravel about 100 feet above the level of the Canadian River... unquestionably Pleistocene, and based by the lack of replacement of the bone, probably late Pleistocene" but "it is possible that it belongs to an earlier division of the Pleistocene" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandy gravel |
| Lithology description: "sand and gravel" | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | salvage,survey of museum collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | J. Kaufman | Collection dates: | 1936 |
| Collection method comments: University of Oklahoma collection
discovered while "removing sand and gravel from a pit" | |||
| Taxonomic list comments:"associated with" the Euceratherium specimen "were fragment of proboscideans, equids and bovids" | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 93254 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-01-10 09:47:26 | Last modified: | 2010-01-10 11:47:26 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-01-10 09:47:26 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 31527. | J. W. Stovall. 1937. Euceratherium bizzelli, a new ungulate from Oklahoma. 11(5):450-455 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |