Also known as Eddas Bench
Where: Yukon, Canada (63.1° N, 139.3° W: paleocoordinates 63.1° N, 139.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• said to be late Irvingtonian, Middle Pleistocene, below the 190 ka Sheep Creek tephra, and in a normally reversed section and therefore younger than 780 ka
•"A 15 m thick section" with fossils "from the lowest of four strata at Eddas Bench, Organic 1" which is "approximately 3.5 m thick before melting of included ice"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; paleosol/pedogenic siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected in 1999, 2001
Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), sieve,
• small mammals were collected by screenwashing, and large mammals by collecting "in place... using standard prospecting techniques"
•collections are in the Heritage Resources Unit of the Yukon Government in Whitehorse
Primary reference: J. E. Storer. 2004. A Middle Pleistocene (late Irvingtonian) mammalian fauna from Thistle Creek, Klondike Goldfields region of Yukon Territory, Canada. Paludicola 4(4):137-150 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 74336: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 02.08.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Ochotona sp. Link 1795 pika
Ochotona whartoni Guthrie and Matthews 1971 pika | |
Guildayomys matthewsi n. sp. Storer 2004 rodent
Lemmus sp. Link 1795 vole
Dicrostonyx sp. Gloger 1841 lemming
Microtus sp. Schrank 1798 vole
Microtus morlani n. sp. Storer 2004 vole | |
Eutamias cf. minimus, "Spermophilus cf. parryii" = Urocitellus parryii
Eutamias cf. minimus Bachman 1839 least chipmunk
"Spermophilus cf. parryii" = Urocitellus parryii Richardson 1825 arctic ground squirrel originally entered as "Spermophilus cf. parryi"
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Equus sp., "Equus cf. lambei" = Equus alaskae
"Equus cf. lambei" = Equus alaskae Winans 1989 horse | |
Mustela sp. Linnaeus 1758 weasel | |
Sorex cf. cinereus Kerr 1792 cinereus shrew | |
Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828 mammoth |