Ellef Ringnes Island: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenidae
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Balaena mysticetus
Linnaeus 1758
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1 individual | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Nunavut |
| Coordinates: | 78.7° North, 100.2° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 78.7° North, 100.2° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
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: 10370 +- 60 BP |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 90878 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-08-21 14:48:17 | Last modified: | 2009-08-21 17:48:17 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-08-21 14:48:17 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 30576. | N. Atkinson. 2009. A 10400-year-old bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) skull from Ellef Ringnes Island, Nunavut: Implications for sea-ice conditions in High arctic Canada at the end of the last glaciation. Arctic 62(1):38-44 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |