Akranes: Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene, Iceland
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Geography
| Country: | Iceland |
| Coordinates: | 64.3° North, 22.1° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 64.3° North, 22.1° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene |
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 102894 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-01-20 09:27:38 | Last modified: | 2011-01-19 16:27:38 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-01-20 09:27:38 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 34759. | S. Kardas. 1965. Notas sobre el genero Odobenus (Mammalia, Pinnipedia). 1. Una nueva suespecie fosil del Pleistoceno superior-Holoceno. Boletin de la Real Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural. Organo del Instituto de Ciencias Naturales Joseph de Acosta Seccion Geologica 63:363-380 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |