Cape Deceit (Pleistocene of the United States)
Where: Northwest Arctic County, Alaska (66.6° N, 161.9° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 66.9° N, 161.9° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Cape Deceit Formation, Irvingtonian (1.4 - 0.2 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: R. D. Guthrie and J. V. Matthews, Jr. 1971. The Cape Deceit fauna—Early pleistocene mammalian assemblage from the Alaskan arctic. Quaternary Research 1(4):474-510 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details
PaleoDB collection 20277: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Matthew Clapham
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Taxonomic list
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Sorex sp. Linnaeus 1758 long-tailed shrew | |
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Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758 canine | |
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Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
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Rangifer sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827 reindeer
Cervus cf. elaphus Linnaeus 1758 red deer | |
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Marmota sp. Frisch 1775 marmot | |
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Predicrostonyx hopkinsi Guthrie and Matthews 1971 rodent
Lemmus cf. sibiricus Ognev 1947 Siberian brown lemming | |
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Ochotona whartoni Guthrie and Matthews 1971 pika | |
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