Foster sand pit (Pleistocene of Canada)

Where: Ontario, Canada (45.3° N, 75.7° W: paleocoordinates 45.3° N, 75.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• bone radiocarbon dated at 10420 +-150 BP

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: C. E. Harington. 1977. Marine mammals in the Champlain Sea and the Great Lakes. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 288:508-537 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51009: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 26.05.2005

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Phocidae
Phoca hispida Schreber 1775 ringed seal
 Cetacea - Monodontidae
Delphinapterus leucas Pallas 1776 beluga whale