Cape James Ross (Pleistocene of Canada)

Also known as Melville Island

Where: Nunavut, Canada (68.5° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 68.5° N, 96.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

• 21900 +-320 yBP radiocarbon date

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

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 73719: 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