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Late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) mammalian assemblage from Paw Paw Cove, Tilghman Island, Maryland

Title
Late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) mammalian assemblage from Paw Paw Cove, Tilghman Island, Maryland / Ralph E. Eshelman, Darrin Lowery, Frederick Grady, Dan Wagner, H. Gregory McDonald.
Author
Eshelman, Ralph E.
Publication
  • Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2018.
  • ©2018

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Additional Authors
  • Lowery, Darrin
  • Grady, Frederick
  • Wagner, Daniel P., 1951-
  • McDonald, H. Gregory (Hugh Gregory), 1951-
  • Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, publisher.
Description
15 pages : chiefly color illustrations; 28 cm.
Summary
A small, but significant assemblage of Late Pleistocene mammals was recovered from an eroding shoreline at Paw Paw Cove located on the Chesapeake Bay side of Tilghman Island, Talbot County, Maryland. Additionally, Clovis-age (11,050 to 10,800 14C years BP calbp) artifacts are found in a lag deposit beneath a loess deposit at the site. An AMS-date obtained from organic stratum below the loess at the same location suggests that this small fossil assemblage is 21,000 years old. Identifiable taxa include four extinct species, Castoroides sp. (giant beaver), Equus sp. (horse), Tapirus veroensis (Vero tapir), and Mammut americanum (American mastodon), along with Canis cf. C. latrans (coyote), and Cervus elaphus (wapiti). Significantly, the tapir and giant beaver are the first records for Maryland and the tapir is the first record from the Coastal Plain of the Chesapeake region of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. The provisional identification of Canis cf. C. latrans may represent the first Late Pleistocene record from the Coastal Plain of the Chesapeake region of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.--Provided by publisher.
Series Statement
Smithsonian contributions to paleobiology ; number 102
Uniform Title
Smithsonian contributions to paleobiology ; no. 102.
Alternative Title
Late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) mammalian assemblage from Pawpaw Cove, Tilghman Island, Maryland
Subjects
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Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 13-15).
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  • Also available on the Internet.
Call Number
JFF 18-1687
LCCN
2018009387
OCLC
1027770256
Author
Eshelman, Ralph E., author.
Title
Late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) mammalian assemblage from Paw Paw Cove, Tilghman Island, Maryland / Ralph E. Eshelman, Darrin Lowery, Frederick Grady, Dan Wagner, H. Gregory McDonald.
Publisher
Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Smithsonian contributions to paleobiology ; number 102
Smithsonian contributions to paleobiology ; no. 102.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 13-15).
Additional Formats
Also available on the Internet.
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https://doi.org/10.5479/si.1943-6688.102
Chronological Term
From 10 thousand to 2 million years ago
Added Author
Lowery, Darrin, author.
Grady, Frederick, author.
Wagner, Daniel P., 1951- author.
McDonald, H. Gregory (Hugh Gregory), 1951- author.
Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, publisher.
Sudoc No.
SI 1.30:102
Research Call Number
JFF 18-1687
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