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 | |
Mammuthus primigenius Blumenbach 1799 wooly mammoth | |
Insecta | |
? Pterostichus sp. Bonelli 1810 ground beetle | |
Tachinus cf. apertus rove beetle | |
Helophorus splendidus Sahlberg 1880 water scavenger beetle | |
"Cyclorrhapha indet." = Cyclorrhapha
"Cyclorrhapha indet." = Cyclorrhapha Brauer 1863 fly | |
Arachnida | |
Erigone sp. Audouin 1826 money spider/sheet weaver | |
Oribatida indet. Dugès 1834 oribatid mite |