Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.1° N, 119.0° W: paleocoordinates 49.6° N, 119.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• fossil found on a rock surface beneath a deposit of unconsolidated gravel, about 200' thickness, in a placer mining tunnel
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: glacial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: L. M. Lambe. 1907. On a tooth of Ovibos, from Pleistocene gravels near Midway, B. C. The Ottawa Naturalist 21:15-18 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34385: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 28.08.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Ovibos sp. Blainville 1816 muskox |