La Durantaye: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Phocidae
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Halichoerus grypus
(Fabricius 1791)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| or Cystophora cristata | ||||||||||
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Erignathus barbatus
(Erxleben 1777)
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Harington 2008 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Quebec |
| Coordinates: | 46.8° North, 70.9° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 46.8° North, 70.8° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
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
| Stratigraphy comments: 10200 +- 40 BP |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | black unlithified silty claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: black silty clay | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 81691 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-07-11 13:31:07 | Last modified: | 2017-08-08 16:43:39 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-07-11 13:31:07 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 63010. | D. Demers and J. Locat. 1985. Stratigraphie du Quaternaire et phoque fossile, région de la Durantaye, Québec. Géographie physique et Quaternaire 39(1):25-34 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 27585 | C. R. Harington. 2008. The evolution of Arctic marine mammals. Ecological Applications 18(2 Suppl.):S23-S40 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |