Where: Washtenaw County, Michigan (42.3° N, 84.0° W: paleocoordinates 42.3° N, 84.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• "a sample of peaty material washed from sandy clay directly below the skeleton was dated at 11,050 +/- 160 B.P. In this sediment, bone settling was probably minimal"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pond; sandy, carbonaceous claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UMMP

Primary reference: D. C. Fisher. 1984. Taphonomic analysis of late Pleistocene mastodon occurrences: evidence of butchery by North American Paleo-Indians. Paleobiology 10(3):338-357 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 63272: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 09.08.2006