Old Crow River (Upper OCR 300): Late/Upper Pleistocene, 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 - Bovidae
Ovibovini indet.
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Lepus arcticus Ross 1819
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Spermophilus parryii (Richardson 1825)
recombined as Urocitellus parryii
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Castoroides ohioensis Foster 1838
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
Stage:Late/Upper Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Local age/stage:Sangamonian
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Local section:OldCR Local bed:2
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: said to be Sangamonian
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:interglacial
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:overlies Unit 1b
Metadata
Also known as:Unit 2
Database number:20627
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1995-03-26 00:00:00 Last modified:2007-09-17 17:46:40
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]