Gupuk (Holocene of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (69.6° N, 139.2° W: paleocoordinates 69.6° N, 139.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. M. Friesen and C. D. Arnold. 1995. Zooarchaeology of a focal resource: dietary importance of beluga whales to the precontact Mackenzie Inuit. Arctic 48:22-30 [M. Uhen/C. Peredo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 175957: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Carlos Peredo on 20.01.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Phocidae
Erignathus barbados bearded seal
Phoca sp. Linnaeus 1758 seal
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus maritimus Phipps 1774 polar bear