Island View Beach, Saanich: Pleistocene, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Parelephas (Elephas) columbi (Falconer 1857)
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]