Old Crow River Locality 44: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Spermophilus parryii (Richardson 1825)
recombined as Urocitellus parryii
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Castor canadensis Kuhl 1820
Castoroides ohioensis Foster 1838
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Microtus miurus Osgood 1901
Harington 1990
Microtus xanthognathus (Leach 1815)
    = Microtus cf. xanthognathus Leach 1815
Harington 1990
Microtus cf. oeconomus (Pallas 1776)
Harington 1990
Ondatra zibethicus (Linnaeus 1766)
Clethrionomys cf. rutilus (Pallas 1779)
    = Clethrionomys rutilus Pallas 1779
Harington 1990
recombined as Myodes rutilus
Dicrostonyx torquatus (Pallas 1778)
    = Dicrostonyx sp. Gloger 1841
Harington 1990
Lemmus sibiricus Ognev 1947
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Lepus americanus Erxleben 1777
Harington 1990
Lepus arcticus Ross 1819
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Ochotona princeps (Richardson 1828)
Ochotona cf. whartoni Guthrie and Matthews 1971
Harington 1990
Mammalia - Soricidae
Soricidae indet. Fischer 1814
Harington 1990
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus cf. verae
    = Equus verae
Harington 1990
Mammalia - Camelidae
Camelini indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Cervidae
Rangifer tarandus (Linnaeus 1758)
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827
Harington 1990
Ovibovini indet.
Harington 1990
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mephitidae
Spilogale sp. Gray 1865
    = Brachyprotoma obtusata Cope 1899
Harington 1990
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Gulo gulo (Linnaeus 1758)
Mustela sp. Linnaeus 1758
    = Martes pennanti Erxleben 1777
Harington 1990
recombined as Pekania pennanti
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758
    = Canis lupus Linnaeus 1758
Harington 1990
Alopex lagopus (Linnaeus 1758)
recombined as Vulpes lagopus
Mammalia - Megalonychidae
Megalonyx jeffersonii (Desmarest 1822)
McDonald et al. 2000
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828
    = Mammuthus primigenius Blumenbach 1799
Harington 1990
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut americanum (Kerr 1792)
Harington 1990
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Yukon
Coordinates: 68.2° North, 140.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:68.3° North, 139.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:OldCR Local bed:2
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:interglacial
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:Harington 1990 appears to give records for both OCR 44 and OCR 11; his merged list is used here
overlies sites in Unit 1b
in terminology of Morlan 1984, Unit 2 is the middle part of Unit 2a, and Unit 1b is the basal zone of Unit 2a
Morlan 1984 gives generally compatible lists of microtines from OCR 11 and OCR 44
Sangamonian
Metadata
Also known as:OCR 11 (upper)
Database number:20626
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1995-03-26 00:00:00 Last modified:2007-09-18 13:31:23
Access level:the public Released:1995-03-26 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

1784. C. R. Harington. 1978. Quaternary vertebrate faunas of Canada and Alaska and their suggested chronological sequence. Syllogeus 15:1-105 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

1785 C. R. Harington. 1990. Vertebrates of the Last Interglaciation in Canada: A Review, with New Data. Geographie physique et Quaternaire 44(3) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
2503 H. G. McDonald, C. R. Harington, and G. De Iulis. 2000. The Ground Sloth, Megalonyx, from Pleistocene Deposits of the Old Crow Basin, Yukon, Canada. Arctic 53(3):213-220 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]