Overpeck Station: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Ohio

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus procerus n. sp. Miller 1899
synonym of Ursus arctos
(3 measurements)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Ohio County:Butler
Coordinates: 39.5° North, 84.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.5° North, 84.3° West
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:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: found at "twenty-three feet from the surface... lying on what appeared to be a nest of petrified sticks"
"late Pleistocene" according to Guilday 1968
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: gravel
Lithology description: "gravels" according to Guilday 1968
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:salvage,selective quarrying,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Metadata
Database number:74139
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-07-24 19:44:49 Last modified:2010-01-15 15:46:42
Access level:the public Released:2007-07-24 19:44:49
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

31591. G. S. Miller, Jr. 1899. A new fossil bear from Ohio. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 13:53-56 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

24884 J. E. Guilday. 1968. Grizzly bears from eastern North America. American Midland Naturalist 79(1):247-250 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]