Gay Head marine Pleistocene (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Dukes County, Massachusetts (41.3° N, 70.8° W: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 70.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• "probably Pleistocene" Kortesky & Ray, 2008 p. 121

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: O. P. Hay. 1923. The Pleistocene of North America and its vertebrated animals from the states east of the Mississippi River and from the Canadian provinces east of longitude 95 degrees. Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication 322:1-499 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 88532: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 14.04.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Odobenidae
Odobenus sp.1 Brisson 1762 walrus
 Carnivora - Phocidae
Phocidae indet.1 Gray 1821 seal
Monachinae indet.1 Trouessart 1897 seal
cf. Prophoca rousseaui1 Van Beneden 1876 seal
Aves
 Charadriiformes - Alcoidae
"Alca impennis" = Pinguinus impennis2
"Alca impennis" = Pinguinus impennis2 Linnaeus 1758 Great auk