Hillside: Holocene, Alaska

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Monodontidae
Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas 1776)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae
Phoca vitulina Linnaeus 1758
Erignathus barbados
Pusa hispida (Schreber 1775)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Odobenidae
Odobenus rosmarus (Linnaeus 1758)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus maritimus Phipps 1774
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alaska
Coordinates: 63.3° North, 170.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:63.3° North, 170.3° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Holocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Holocene
Age range of interval: 0.0117 - 0 m.y. ago
Age estimate: 1700 ± 100 YBP (14C (calibrated))
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:archaeological analysis
Metadata
Database number:175948
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:C. Peredo
Modifier:N. Kahane Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-01-20 08:47:21 Last modified:2022-11-26 12:00:43
Access level:the public Released:2016-01-20 08:47:21
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
57688. H. Collins. 1937. Archaeology of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. Smithsonian Misc. Collection 96(1):247-251 [M. Uhen/C. Peredo]

Secondary references:

81667 S. J. Crockford. 2022. Polar Bear Fossil and Archaeological Records from the Pleistocene and Holocene in Relation to Sea Ice Extent and Open Water Polynyas. Openquaternary 8(7):1-26 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]