Old Crow River (Lower OCR 12): Irvingtonian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Spermophilus parryii (Richardson 1825)
recombined as Urocitellus parryii
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Castor canadensis Kuhl 1820
Castoroides ohioensis Foster 1838
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Microtus miurus Osgood 1901
Microtus xanthognathus (Leach 1815)
Microtus oeconomus (Pallas 1776)
questioned by Morlan 1984
Ondatra zibethicus (Linnaeus 1766)
Dicrostonyx sp. Gloger 1841
"Dicrostonyx (Misothermus) sp."
Lemmus sibiricus Ognev 1947
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Lepus americanus Erxleben 1777
Lepus arcticus Ross 1819
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Ochotona princeps (Richardson 1828)
Ochotona cf. whartoni Guthrie and Matthews 1971
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Cervidae
Rangifer tarandus (Linnaeus 1758)
Cervus ? elaphus Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis cf. lupus Linnaeus 1758
Alopex cf. lagopus (Linnaeus 1758)
recombined as Vulpes lagopus
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Yukon
Coordinates: 68.2° North, 140.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:68.3° North, 139.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Local age/stage:Illinoian
Key time interval:Irvingtonian
Age range of interval:1.80000 - 0.30000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Local section:OldCR Local bed:1
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: said to be Illinoian
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:underlies Unit 2
Metadata
Also known as:Unit 1b
Database number:20434
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1995-03-26 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:44
Access level:the public Released:1995-03-26 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2048. A. V. Jopling, W. N. Irving, and B. F. Beebe. 1981. Stratigraphic, Sedimentological and Faunal Evidence for the Occurrence of Pre-Sangamonian Artefacts in Northern Yukon. Arctic 34(1):3-33 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]