Old Crow River (Lower OCR 300): Irvingtonian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Alopex lagopus (Linnaeus 1758)
recombined as Vulpes lagopus
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Spermophilus cf. parryii (Richardson 1825)
recombined as Urocitellus parryii
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Lepus americanus Erxleben 1777
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Yukon
Coordinates: 68.2° North, 140.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:68.3° North, 139.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
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
Local section:OldCR Local bed:1
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: said to be Illinoian
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:underlies Unit 2
Metadata
Also known as:Unit 1b
Database number:20436
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1995-03-26 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:44
Access level:the public Released:1995-03-26 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
2048. A. V. Jopling, W. N. Irving, and B. F. Beebe. 1981. Stratigraphic, Sedimentological and Faunal Evidence for the Occurrence of Pre-Sangamonian Artefacts in Northern Yukon. Arctic 34(1):3-33 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]