Where: Greenland (83.2° N, 44.0° W: paleocoordinates 83.2° N, 44.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: C. A. Darwent. 2003. Appendix 1. The zooarchaeology of Peary Land and adjacent areas. In B. Grønnow and J. F. Jensen (eds.), he northernmost ruins of the globe: Eigil Knuth’s archaeological investigations in Pearly Land and adjacent areas of high arctic Greenland. Monographs on Greenland, Man and Society 29 [M. Uhen/C. Peredo]more details
Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis
PaleoDB collection 175985: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Carlos Peredo on 20.01.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Erignathus barbatus Erxleben 1777 bearded seal
Pusa hispida Schreber 1775 ringed seal
Phoca sp. Linnaeus 1758 seal
Pagophilus groenlandica Erxleben 1777 harp seal | |
Odobenus rosmarus Linnaeus 1758 walrus | |
Ursus maritimus Phipps 1774 polar bear |