Quesnel Forks: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Parelephas (Elephas) columbi
(Falconer 1857)
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Cowan 1941 | 1 specimen | |||||
| recombined as Mammuthus columbi | |||||||
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Mammonteus (Elephas) primigenius
(Blumenbach 1799)
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Cowan 1941 | 1 specimen | |||||
| recombined as Mammuthus primigenius | |||||||
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Oreamnos sp.
Rafinesque 1817
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| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | British Columbia |
| Coordinates: | 53.0° North, 122.5° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 53.0° North, 122.5° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
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
| 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:several other taxa are listed but it not clear that they are pre-Wisconsinan and in any event they are not from a single locality see also Harington 1990 said to be Sangamonian "or earlier" |
Metadata
| Database number: | 20632 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, M. Uhen | Enterer: | J. Alroy, M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2007-09-17 17:46:40 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 1784. | C. R. Harington. 1978. Quaternary vertebrate faunas of Canada and Alaska and their suggested chronological sequence. Syllogeus 15:1-105 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 35981 | I. M. Cowan. 1941. Fossil and subfossil mammals from the Quaternary of British Columbia. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, Section IV Geological Sciences including Mineralogy, Third Series 33(4):39-50 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |