MCZ Vertebrate Paleontology VPM-3694

Megatherium hudsoni White

Date Collected:

Current Identification

Megatherium hudsoni White

Animalia Chordata Vertebrata Tetrapoda Mammalia Megatherioidea Megatheriidae

Determiner: Theodore E. White on 1941-12-04

Nature of ID: type ID

Remarks: ID date is publication year.

White 1941, page 4, Holotype of Megatherium hudsoni White see plate 1

Part	Condition	Disposition	Count
phalanx (fossil)	unchecked	unknown	1	History (4)
Remarks: phalanx (third, right, ungual)

White, T.E. - Proc. N.E.Z.C., 19, p. 3 - 6, Fig. 1, 1941;phalanx (third, right, ungual)

Specific Locality:
[Masked]
Verbatim Locality:
[Masked]
Verbatim Coordinates:
[Masked]
Period/System:
Neogene By: [No Agent]
Epoch/Series:
Pliocene By: [No Agent] Hemphillian NALMA
Formation:
Bone Valley By: [No Agent]
Habitat Description:
[Masked]
Microhabitat:
[Masked]
Locality Remarks:
Pierce was a phosphate mining town. It was one of many company-owned mining towns and villages that once populated Polk County. Pierce was started in April 1906 by the Pierce Phosphate Company. This company was acquired in October 1906 by the American Agricultural Chemical Company, which owned and operated the town until it was disbanded in 1954-55. https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=100904
Georeference:
[Masked]
Verbatim Coordinates:
[Masked]
Collecting Source:
rock/outcrop
Began Date / Ended Date:
1700-01-01 / 1941-12-31
Verbatim Date:
pre 1942
Collecting Event Remarks:
[verbatim horizon attribute: "L. Pliocene, Bone Valley Gravels"] End of date collected range set to the latest date based upon the date written in the ledger under "when received"
Collector:
Amer. Agri. Chem. Co.