Medicine Hat Unit XIII: Late Pleistocene, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Megalonychidae
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? Megalonyx sp.
Harlan 1825
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus columbi
(Falconer 1857)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Lynx canadensis
(Kerr 1792)
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Felis atrox
Leidy 1853
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"Felis leo atrox" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canis lupus
Linnaeus 1758
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Vulpes vulpes
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Procyonidae
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Procyon lotor
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Mustela nigripes
(Audubon and Bachman 1851)
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OK according to Anderson et al. 1986 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Amerhippus sp.
Hoffstetter 1950
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= Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Equus conversidens
Owen 1869
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Equus niobrarensis
Hay 1913
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelops hesternus
(Leidy 1873)
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Hemiauchenia sp.
Gervais and Ameghino 1880
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Rangifer sp.
Hamilton-Smith 1827
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Rangifer tarandus
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Odocoileus cf. virginianus
(Zimmermann 1780)
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Cervus canadensis
Erxleben 1777
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? Cervalces sp.
Scott 1885
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Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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Antilocapra cf. americana
(Ord 1815)
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bison cf. latifrons
(Harlan 1825)
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Ovis canadensis
Shaw 1804
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Sylvilagus floridanus
(Allen 1890)
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Lepus cf. townsendii
Bachman 1839
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Erethizontidae
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Erethizon dorsatum
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Geomyidae
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Thomomys talpoides
(Richardson 1828)
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Cynomys cf. leucurus
Merriam 1890
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= Cynomys niobrarius
Hay 1921
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Citellus richardsonii
(Sabine 1822)
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Microtus sp.
Schrank 1798
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Ondatra zibethicus
(Linnaeus 1766)
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
Coordinates: | 50.1° North, 110.7° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 50.1° North, 110.5° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
Stage: | Late Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | *Local age/stage: | Sangamonian |
Key time interval: | Late Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 0.129 - 0.0117 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Local section: | MdHat | Local bed: | 13 | ||
Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: said to be Sangamonian |
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Glacial or sequence phase: | interglacial |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:overlies Unit VII major Medicine Hat localities include Evil-smelling Bluff, Island Bluff, Mitchell Bluff, and Surprize Bluff Harington 1990 reports U-series dates of 0.074 +/- 0.005 and 0.076 +/- 0.005 Ma although Nothrotheriops is not listed by Churcher, Akersten and McDonald 1991 detail an argument that such a record for the "Rancholabrean" of Medicine Hat was based on probosidean and equid material |
Metadata
Database number: | 20615 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2007-09-17 17:46:40 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
1200. | C. S. Churcher. 1984. In W. C. Mahaney (ed.), Correlation of Quaternary Chronologies [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
1685 | H. T. Goodwin. 1995. Systematic revision of fossil prairie dogs with descriptions of two new species. University of Kansas Natural History Museum Miscellaneous Publications 86:1-38 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |