Eskimo Island 3 (Holocene of Canada)

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (57.9° N, 62.1° W: paleocoordinates 57.9° N, 62.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. M. Woollett. 1999. Living in the narrows: subsistence economy and culture change in Labrador Inuit society during the Contact Period. World Archaeology 30:370-387 [M. Uhen/C. Peredo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 175980: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Carlos Peredo on 20.01.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Phocidae
Pusa hispida Schreber 1775 ringed seal
Phoca sp. Linnaeus 1758 seal
Phoca vitulina Linnaeus 1758 harbor seal
"Pagophilus groenlandicus" = Pagophilus groenlandica Erxleben 1777 harp seal
 Carnivora - Odobenidae
Odobenus rosmarus Linnaeus 1758 walrus
 Placentalia -
Cetacea indet. Brisson 1762 whale