Medicine Hat Unit VII (Pleistocene of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.1° N, 110.7° W: paleocoordinates 50.1° N, 110.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: C. S. Churcher. 1984. In W. C. Mahaney (ed.), Correlation of Quaternary Chronologies [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

PaleoDB collection 20418: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993

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Taxonomic list

• overlies Unit V
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus columbi Falconer 1857 Columbian mammoth
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelops hesternus Leidy 1873 camel
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Cynomys niobrarius Hay 1921 prairie dog