Ballast Brook (Pleistocene of Canada)

Also known as Banks Island

Where: Nunavut, Canada (74.3° N, 123.1° W: paleocoordinates 74.3° N, 123.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

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

• presumably Banks Glaciation age or later

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; sandstone

Primary reference: C. R. Harington. 1990. Ice Age Vertebrates in the Canadian Arctic Islands. Canada's Missing Dimension I:140-160 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 73700: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 26.06.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828 mammoth