Toronto, Glacial Lake Iroquoi (Pleistocene of Canada)

Where: Ontario, Canada (43.7° N, 79.3° W: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 79.3° W)

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

• A 14C date of 11,315 ± 325 yr B.P.

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: C. S. Churcher and R. L. Peterson. 1982. Chronologic and Environmental Implications of a New Genus of Fossil Deer from Late Wisconsin Deposits at Toronto, Canada. Quaternary Research 18(2):184-195 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 195488: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 10.08.2018

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Torontoceros hypogaeus n. gen. n. sp.
Torontoceros hypogaeus n. gen. n. sp. Churcher and Peterson 1982 deer
Angiospermae
 Poales - Cyperaceae
Cyperaceae indet. Jussieu 1789 sedge
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Pinaceae
Picea sp. Dietrich 1824 spruce
Pinus sp. Linnaeus 1753 pine