Dovre (Pleistocene of Norway)

Where: Norway (62.0° N, 9.3° E: paleocoordinates 62.0° N, 9.2° E)

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

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandy gravel

• "The vertebrae was found in gravel, underneath a sand layer that was covered by a till." (Hufthammer, 2001).

Size class: macrofossils

• "An interesting such find is a very well preserved cervical vertebra of Ovibos moschatus that was found while constructing a railway at Indset, Dovre (Text-fig. 2)(Reusch, 1913)." (Hufthammer, 2001)

Primary reference: A. K. Hufthammer. 2001. The Weichselian (c. 115,000 - 10,000 B.P.) vertebrate fauna of Norway. Bollettino della Società paleontologica italiana 40:201-208 [M. Uhen/N. Kahane]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 227462: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Nicholas Kahane on 12.10.2022

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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Ovibos moschatus
Ovibos moschatus Zimmermann 1780 muskox
single cervical vertebra