Where: Yukon, Canada (68.2° N, 140.0° W: paleocoordinates 68.2° N, 140.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• "Carbon 14 dates suggest that the age of the assemblage is greater than 40,000 years BP"
Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; unlithified lithology not reported
Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils
Collected by J.V. Matthews
Primary reference: D. G. Kissinger. 1973. A new weevil genus from America north of the Arctic circle and notes of fossils from Pliocene and Pleistocene sediments (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 27:193-200 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 160070: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.08.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Vitavitus thulius Kissinger 1973 snout beetle
Lepidophorus lineaticollis Kirby 1837 snout beetle |