Overpeck Station: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Ohio
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Ursus procerus n. sp.
Miller 1899
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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] |