Cripple Creek Sump: Irvingtonian, Alaska
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Mammut sp.
Blumenbach 1799
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus sp.
Brookes 1828
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Cervus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Cervalces sp.
Scott 1885
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Alces sp.
Gray 1821
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Rangifer sp.
Hamilton-Smith 1827
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Praeovibos sp.
Staudinger 1908
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Pewe 1975 | |||||||||
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Bison priscus
(Bojanus 1827)
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McDonald 1981 | |||||||||
| "Bison (Superbison) sp." | ||||||||||
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Saiga sp.
Gray 1843
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Pewe 1975 | |||||||||
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Ovis sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Bootherium sp.
Harlan 1825
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| includes "Symbos sp." of Pewe 1975 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Felinae indet.
Trouessart 1885
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| "Felis sp. (large cat)" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Ursus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Pewe 1975 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Xenocyon sp.
Kretzoi 1938
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= Canidae indet.
Fischer de Waldheim 1817
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| this is an Old World genus not recognized in North America by Kurten and Anderson 1980 or in any other reference I have seen | ||||||||||
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Vulpes sp.
Frisch 1775
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Canis sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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= Canis lupus
Linnaeus 1758
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Nowak 1979 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Castoroides ohioensis
Foster 1838
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Harington 1996 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Alaska | County: | Fairbanks North Star |
| Coordinates: | 64.8° North, 147.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 64.9° North, 147.6° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | *Local age/stage: | Illinoian |
| Key time interval: | Irvingtonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 1.40000 - 0.21000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: said to be Illinoian |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Metadata
| Database number: | 20297 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, M. Uhen | Enterer: | J. Alroy, M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1994-06-07 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1994-06-07 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 2773. | T. L. Pewe and D. M. Hopkins. 1967. in Bering Land Bridge [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 74646 | C. R. Harington. 1996. Giant beaver. Beringian Research Notes 6:1-4 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 2504 | J. N. McDonald. 1981. North American Bison 1-350 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
| 2673 | R. M. Nowak. 1979. North American Quaternary Canis. Monograph of the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas 6:1-154 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 2772 | T. L. Pewe. 1975. Quaternary geology of Alaska. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 835:1-145 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |