Where: British Columbia, Canada (50.4° N, 127.0° W: paleocoordinates 50.4° N, 127.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• date on bone of "12,200 +/- 190 radiocarbon years... early postglacial"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: cave; siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: D. W. Nagorsen and G. Keddie. 2000. Late Pleistocene mountain goats (Oreamnos americanus) from Vancouver Island: biogeographic implications. Journal of Mammalogy 81(3):666-675 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 74495: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 07.08.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Oreamnos americanus Blainville 1816 mountain goat |