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
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Mammalia | |
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 | |
Odobenus rosmarus Linnaeus 1758 walrus | |
Cetacea indet. Brisson 1762 whale |