Old Crow River (Lower OCR 15) (Pleistocene of Canada)
Also known as Unit 1b
Where: Yukon, Canada (68.2° N, 140.0° W: paleocoordinates 68.3° N, 139.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)
• said to be Illinoian
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: A. V. Jopling, W. N. Irving, and B. F. Beebe. 1981. Stratigraphic, Sedimentological and Faunal Evidence for the Occurrence of Pre-Sangamonian Artefacts in Northern Yukon. Arctic 34(1):3-33 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details
PaleoDB collection 20435: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• underlies Unit 2
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Mammalia | |
Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828 mammoth | |
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
Soergelia sp. Schaub 1951 antelope | |
Castoroides ohioensis Foster 1838 giant beaver |