Griffin's Gravel Pit South (Pleistocene of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (51.2° N, 114.5° W: paleocoordinates 51.2° N, 114.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• dates cited from Lowden et al. 1967

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; poorly lithified, pebbly, sandy gravel

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by T. P. Chamney and W. Hunt; A. M. Stalker and C. S. Churcher in 1963 and 1965, respectively

Primary reference: C. S. Churcher. 1968. Pleistocene ungulates from the Bow River gravels at Cochrane, Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 5:1467-1488 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 174513: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 14.11.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus conversidens Owen 1869 horse
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Ovis canadensis, "Bison occidentalis" = Bison antiquus
Ovis canadensis Shaw 1804 bighorn sheep
"Bison occidentalis" = Bison antiquus Leidy 1852 bison