Where: Alaska (69.7° N, 154.9° W: paleocoordinates 69.7° N, 154.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• "A radiocarbon age of 27 190 +/- 280 BP... was obtained on the collagen fraction of a 1060 mg sample of [Arctodus humerus] shaft wall"

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. V. Morgan in 1979; reposited in the ROM

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: C. S. Churcher, A. V. Morgan, and L. D. Carter. 1993. Arctodus simus from the Alaskan Arctic Slope. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 30(5):1007-1013 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93341: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 14.01.2010

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