Also known as Duh
Where: Saskatchewan, Canada (52.2° N, 106.6° W: paleocoordinates 52.2° N, 106.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Floral Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• from throughout a section about 12 feet thick
•thought to be of "late Pleistocene age, dating from the time of withdrawal of the Wisconsin ice" based on superposition above a till
•the hardpan is believed by SkwaraWoolf (1981) to possibly represent the Floral Formation, but the overlying sequence (called by her a "gravel") that yielded most of the fossils does not
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; coarse-grained, conglomeratic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
• almost all elements appear to be teeth or bone fragments but there are also a "few foot bones of horse"
Reposited in the ROM
Collection methods: salvage,
• ROM and University of Saskatchewan collections
•discovered by "employees of the Dominion Forest Nursery Station... while excavating for sand" and visited by "the writer and his wife" in 1940, although it is not clear whether material was collected during this visit
Primary reference: L. S. Russell. 1943. Pleistocene horse teeth from Saskatchewan. Journal of Paleontology 17(1):110-114 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 20317: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827 bison | |
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758 deer | |
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? Taxidea sp. Waterhouse 1839 badger | |
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