Sinclair (Pleistocene): Irvingtonian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Elephantidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus cf. conversidens
Owen 1869
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Microtus cf. pennsylvanicus
(Ord 1815)
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Geomyidae
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Geomys sp.
Rafinesque 1817
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Cynomys niobrarius
Hay 1921
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Goodwin 1995 | |||||||||
| "Late Rancholabrean... Sinclair, Hand Hills" | ||||||||||
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Spermophilus cf. richardsonii
(Sabine 1822)
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| recombined as Urocitellus richardsonii | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Leporidae indet.
Fischer de Waldheim 1817
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 51.6° North, 112.3° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 51.6° North, 112.1° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Irvingtonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 1.40000 - 0.21000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Taxonomic list comments:also reported by Churcher 1984b as "Hand Hills" and falsely said to be SW of Delia |
Metadata
| Database number: | 20529 | ||
| 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:
| 1159. | J. A. Burns and R. R. Young. 1988. Occasional Papers of the Tyrell Museum of Paleotology 9 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 1685 | H. T. Goodwin. 1995. Systematic revision of fossil prairie dogs with descriptions of two new species. University of Kansas Natural History Museum Miscellaneous Publications 86:1-38 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |