Western shore of Baldwin Peninsula (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Alaska (66.7° N, 162.1° W: paleocoordinates 66.7° N, 162.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• 26,900 (+2400, -3400) C14 years old.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pond; unlithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. M. Hopkins, R. E. Giterman, and J. V. Matthews. 1976. Interstadial mammoth remains and associated pollen and insect fossils, Kotzebue Sound area, northwestern Alaska. Geology 4:169-172 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 169385: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.05.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus primigenius Blumenbach 1799 wooly mammoth
Insecta
 Coleoptera - Carabidae
? Pterostichus sp. Bonelli 1810 ground beetle
 Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
 Coleoptera - Helophoridae
Helophorus splendidus Sahlberg 1880 water scavenger beetle
 Diptera -
"Cyclorrhapha indet." = Cyclorrhapha
"Cyclorrhapha indet." = Cyclorrhapha Brauer 1863 fly
Arachnida
 Araneae - Linyphiidae
Erigone sp. Audouin 1826 money spider/sheet weaver
 Acariformes -
Oribatida indet. Dugès 1834 oribatid mite