Les Cedres (Pleistocene of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (45.3° N, 74.0° W: paleocoordinates 45.3° N, 74.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: C. R. Harington. 1988. Marine mammals of the Champlain Sea, and the problem of whales in Michigan. Geological Association of Canada Special Paper 35:225-240 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51021: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 26.05.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Megaptera novaeangliae Brisson 1762 humpback whale