Saskatoon: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus cf. niobrarensis Hay 1913
(1 measurement)
Mammalia - Cervidae
Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bison cf. latifrons (Harlan 1825)
Mammalia - Camelidae
Camelops cf. hesternus (Leidy 1873)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Proboscidea indet. Illiger 1811
    = Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828
Skwara and Walker 1989
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Saskatchewan
Coordinates: 52.1° North, 106.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:52.1° North, 106.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Late/Upper Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Floral Member:Riddell
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:interglacial
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:Sangamonian: Skwara and Walker 1989
Metadata
Database number:20640
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1995-03-26 00:00:00 Last modified:2007-09-18 13:25:33
Access level:the public Released:1995-03-26 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
3182. T. SkwaraWoolf. 1981. Biostratigraphy and paleoecology of Pleistocene deposits (Riddell Member, Floral Formation, Late Rancholabrean), Saskatoon, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 18 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]

Secondary references:

31815% 21120T. Skwara and E. G. Walker. 1989. Extinct muskox and other additions to the late Pleistocene Riddell local fauna, Saskatoon, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 26(5):881-893 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]