Resonance Cave (Pleistocene of Canada)

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

• "silty deposits"

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
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Oreamnos americanus Blainville 1816 mountain goat