Chum Creek (Pleistocene of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (50.8° N, 119.6° W: paleocoordinates 50.9° N, 119.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: unearthed during road building operations

Primary reference: I. M. Cowan. 1941. Fossil and subfossil mammals from the Quaternary of British Columbia. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, Section IV Geological Sciences including Mineralogy, Third Series 33(4):39-50 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 108781: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 05.05.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Parelephas (Elephas) aff. columbi" = Mammuthus columbi
"Parelephas (Elephas) aff. columbi" = Mammuthus columbi Falconer 1857 Columbian mammoth