Phoenix Basin Ice Age
Reconstruction of Pleistocene fossil horse.
Drawing by Gavin McCullough.
| Museum Researchers: |
Various |
| Location: |
Gilbert, Mesa, Chandler and Peoria,
Arizona |
| Age: |
Pleistocene, 1 million to 10,000 years
old |
| Geological Unit: |
Unconsolidated Alluvium |
| Discoveries Include: |
Mammoth, camel, llama, pronghorn,
horse, and tortoise. |
| Comments: |
Ice Age fossils occur at many
localities in the Phoenix area. The museum excavations have included
the well known Gilbert Mammoth and many firsts for Maricopa County.
Firsts include: camels, the camel Camelops, the llama
Hemiauchenia, and the pronghorn Stockoceros. |
Publications from Phoenix Basin Ice Age
| 2006 |
Robert McCord and Gavin McCullough. The
"Gilbert Mammoth" and Associated Fauna (abstract).
Proceedings of the Arizona Nevada Academy of Science 41:11. |
Exposing the tusk of the "Gilbert Mammoth" in 2005.
The Gilbert Mammoth excavation crew attaches
a plank of wood to bolster a mammoth tusk.
Reconstruction of Columbian Mammoth.
Drawing by Gavin McCullough.
Reconstruction of the fossil camel Hemiauchenia.
Drawing by Gavin McCullough.
Reconstruction of fossil four-pronged antelope
Stockoceros.
Drawing by Gavin McCullough.
Fossil tortoise discovered in Mesa during an
archaeological investigation in 2007.