Sable Island (Holocene of Canada)

Also known as Isle de Sable

Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (43.9° N, 59.9° W: paleocoordinates 43.9° N, 59.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• carbon date after Dyke et al 1999

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: O. P. Hay. 1923. The Pleistocene of North America and its vertebrated animals from the states east of the Mississippi River and from the Canadian provinces east of longitude 95 degrees. Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication 322:1-499 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 96830: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 01.07.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Odobenidae
Odobenus rosmarus Linnaeus 1758 walrus
subspecies antiquus