Lower Carp Lake (Pleistocene of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (63.6° N, 113.8° W: paleocoordinates 63.6° N, 113.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. R. Harington. 1990. Vertebrates of the Last Interglaciation in Canada: A Review, with New Data. Geographie physique et Quaternaire 44(3) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 20610: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995

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Taxonomic list

• said to be "18O stage 5"
Mammalia
 Megatherioidea - Megalonychidae
Megalonyx cf. jeffersonii Desmarest 1822 Jefferson's ground sloth
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut americanum Kerr 1792 American mastodon