Island View Beach, Saanich: Pleistocene, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Parelephas (Elephas) columbi
(Falconer 1857)
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1 specimen | ||||||
recombined as Mammuthus columbi | |||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Canada | State/province: | British Columbia |
Coordinates: | 48.5° North, 123.3° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 48.4° North, 123.0° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 2.58800 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 108783 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2011-05-05 00:06:58 | Last modified: | 2011-05-04 10:06:58 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-05-05 00:06:58 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
35981. | I. M. Cowan. 1941. Fossil and subfossil mammals from the Quaternary of British Columbia. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, Section IV Geological Sciences including Mineralogy, Third Series 33(4):39-50 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |