Where: Alaska (64.1° N, 141.9° W: paleocoordinates 64.0° N, 141.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• "late Wisconsin" with bone collagen radiocarbon dates of "26 760 +/- 300 years BP" (Equus sp., specimen collected in 1965 somewhere in the area but apparently not at the site), "20 500 +/- 390 years BP" (Symbos cavifrons), "10370 +/- 160 years BP" (bison tibia), and "10050 +/- 150 years BP" (Cervus elaphus)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; unlithified, black, carbonaceous siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by B. Purdy in 1974

Collection methods: quarrying,

• "Pleistocene mammal bones have been washed out of the sediments... for many years and were picked up occasionally by local collectors" but this material apparently was "donated to the National Museums of Canada by Barbara Purdy" and apparently "excavated" in part or whole in 1974 collection

Primary reference: C. R. Harington. 1980. Pleistocene mammals from Lost Chicken Creek, Alaska. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 17(2):168-198 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 93555: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 24.01.2010

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