Watino Road Bridge: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Proboscidea
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Proboscidea indet.
Illiger 1811
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus niobrarensis
Hay 1913
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bison sp.
Hamilton-Smith 1827
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| this does not include the specimen of B. alaskensis from the A & R Gravel Pit reported by McDonald 1981 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Spermophilus sp.
Cuvier 1825
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 55.7° North, 117.7° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 55.7° North, 117.7° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | interglacial |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Taxonomic list comments:said to be "older than 43,500 BP" and "probably represent a Sangamon fauna" not to be confused with additional Wisconsin and Holocene faunas from Watino |
Metadata
| Database number: | 20648 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2007-09-18 13:25:33 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 1203. | ETE 1190 | C. S. Churcher and M. Wilson. 1979. Quaternary Mammals from the Eastern Peace River District, Alberta. Journal of Paleontology 53(1) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |