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PV OR 15913

Classification
Scientific name: Mammut americanum (Kerr, 1792)
Author: (Kerr, 1792)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Proboscidea
Family: Mammutidae
Genus: Mammut
Species: americanum
Higher classification: Animalia; Chordata; Vertebrata; Mammalia; Proboscidea; Mammutidae
Location
Locality: Hickory, Benton; Koch Spring, Pomme de Terre River, near Anvil Rock, 5 miles SW of Fristoe, Nearest Named Place: Koch Spring, Pomme-de-Terre River; Nearest Named Place: Pomme de Terre River, a tributary of the Osage river; Nearest Named Place: Big Bone river
State province: Missouri
Country: United States
Continent: North America
Higher geography: North America; United States; Missouri
Collection event
Recorded by: Albert C. Koch
Collection date: 1840
Identification
Determinations:
Names Types FiledAs
Mammut americanum (Kerr, 1792)
Specimen
Catalogue number: PV OR 15913
Collection code: PAL ( Palaeontology)
Sub department: ES Mammals
Other catalog numbers: NHMUK:ecatalogue:2227644
Collection kind: Mammals
Donor name: Albert C. Koch
Catalogue description: Skeleton on an adult made up from bones of several individuals, the incisors and some of the bones are casts
Stratigraphy
Earliest eon/lowest eonothem: Phanerozoic
Latest eon/highest eonothem: Phanerozoic
Earliest era/lowest erathem: Cenozoic
Latest era/highest erathem: Cenozoic
Earliest period/lowest system: Quaternary
Latest period/highest system: Quaternary
Earliest epoch/lowest series: Pleistocene
Latest epoch/highest series: Pleistocene
Chronostratigraphy: Quaternary, Pleistocene
Record
Occurrence ID: 27776c58-61a8-4d27-9771-8091d3d03c60
Modified: 2025-05-16T09:19:10+00:00
Created: 2011-07-07T14:58:41+00:00

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Additional Information

Created 2011-07-07T14:58:41+00:00
Last updated 2025-05-16T09:19:10+00:00
Format DWC
License CC0-1.0
Dataset collection-specimens
Dataset ID 56e711e6-c847-4f99-915a-6894bb5c5dea
Resource Specimens
Resource ID 05ff2255-c38a-40c9-b657-4ccb55ab2feb