Penny Bay: Holocene, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenidae
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Balaena mysticetus
Linnaeus 1758
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Nunavut |
| Coordinates: | 69.6° North, 116.8° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 69.6° North, 116.8° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Holocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Holocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.01170 - 0.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | archaeological analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 162016 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | C. Peredo | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2014-09-17 16:36:28 | Last modified: | 2014-09-17 16:36:28 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-09-17 16:36:28 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 52779. | A. S. Dyke and J. M. Savelle. 2001. Holocene history of the Bering Sea bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) in Its Beaufort Sea summer grounds off southwestern Victoria Island, Western Canadian Arctic. Quaternary Research 55(3):371-379 [M. Uhen/C. Peredo/M. Uhen] |