St. Lawrence Island (Holocene of the United States)

Where: Alaska (63.4° N, 170.4° W: paleocoordinates 63.4° N, 170.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• said to be "conventional" as opposed to "measured" age

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: anthropogenic

Collection methods: Fossils were purchased from a fossil dealer.

Primary reference: L. D. Crerar, A. P. Crerar, D. P. Domning and E. C. M. Parsons. 2014. Rewriting the history of an extinction— was a population of Steller’s sea cows (Hydrodamalis gigas) at St Lawrence Island also driven to extinction?. Biology Letters [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 164374: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 01.12.2014, edited by Nicholas Kahane

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Sirenia - Dugongidae
Hydrodamalis gigas Zimmermann 1780 Steller's sea cow
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus maritimus Phipps 1774 polar bear