Point Refuge (Holocene of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (76.3° N, 94.8° W: paleocoordinates 76.3° N, 94.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Furze, A. Pienkowski, and R. Coulthard. 2014. New cetacean R values for Arctic North America and their implications for marine-mammal-based paleoenvironmental reconstructions. Quaternary Science Reviews 91:218-241 [M. Uhen/C. Peredo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 160849: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Carlos Peredo on 29.08.2014, edited by Nicholas Kahane

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus maritimus Phipps 1774 polar bear
 Cetacea - Balaenidae
Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus 1758 bowhead whale