Old Crow River Locality 44: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Spermophilus parryii
(Richardson 1825)
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recombined as Urocitellus parryii | |||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Castor canadensis
Kuhl 1820
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Castoroides ohioensis
Foster 1838
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Microtus miurus
Osgood 1901
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Harington 1990 | ||||||
Microtus xanthognathus
(Leach 1815)
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= Microtus cf. xanthognathus
Leach 1815
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Harington 1990 | ||||||
Microtus cf. oeconomus
(Pallas 1776)
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Harington 1990 | ||||||
Ondatra zibethicus
(Linnaeus 1766)
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Clethrionomys cf. rutilus
(Pallas 1779)
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= Clethrionomys rutilus
Pallas 1779
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Harington 1990 | ||||||
recombined as Myodes rutilus | |||||||
Dicrostonyx torquatus
(Pallas 1778)
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= Dicrostonyx sp.
Gloger 1841
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Harington 1990 | ||||||
Lemmus sibiricus
Ognev 1947
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Lepus americanus
Erxleben 1777
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Harington 1990 | ||||||
Lepus arcticus
Ross 1819
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Ochotonidae
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Ochotona princeps
(Richardson 1828)
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Ochotona cf. whartoni
Guthrie and Matthews 1971
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Harington 1990 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Soricidae indet.
Fischer 1814
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Harington 1990 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus cf. verae
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= Equus verae
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Harington 1990 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelini indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Rangifer tarandus
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bison sp.
Hamilton-Smith 1827
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Harington 1990 | ||||||
Ovibovini indet.
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Harington 1990 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mephitidae
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Spilogale sp.
Gray 1865
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= Brachyprotoma obtusata
Cope 1899
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Harington 1990 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Gulo gulo
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Mustela sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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= Martes pennanti
Erxleben 1777
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Harington 1990 | ||||||
recombined as Pekania pennanti | |||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canis sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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= Canis lupus
Linnaeus 1758
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Harington 1990 | ||||||
Alopex lagopus
(Linnaeus 1758)
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recombined as Vulpes lagopus | |||||||
Mammalia
- Megalonychidae
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Megalonyx jeffersonii
(Desmarest 1822)
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McDonald et al. 2000 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus sp.
Brookes 1828
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= Mammuthus primigenius
Blumenbach 1799
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Harington 1990 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Mammut americanum
(Kerr 1792)
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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] |