Herschel Island, northeastern coast (Pleistocene of Canada)

Also known as Herschel Loc. 7

Where: Yukon, Canada (69.6° N, 139.1° W: paleocoordinates 69.6° N, 139.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• pssibly of last (Sangamon) interglacial age

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. R. Harington. 1990. Ice Age Vertebrates in the Canadian Arctic Islands. Canada's Missing Dimension I:140-160 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 73693: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 26.06.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Phocidae
Phoca sp.1 Linnaeus 1758 seal
Phoca hispida2 Schreber 1775 ringed seal
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Equus lambei" = Equus alaskae
"Equus lambei" = Equus alaskae Winans 1989 horse
 Cetacea - Monodontidae
cf. Delphinapterus leucas2 Pallas 1776 beluga whale
 Cetacea - Balaenidae
cf. Balaena mysticetus1 Linnaeus 1758 bowhead whale