Taber Coal Mine: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Canada
collected by L. A. Bayrock, J. F. Jones 1957
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Cypricercus reticulatus
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Succineidae
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Succinea avara
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Valloniidae
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Vallonia gracilicosta
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Vertiginidae
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Vertigo modesta
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Lymnaeidae
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Stagnicola palustris
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| "S. palustris nuttalliana" | ||||||||||
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Fossaria sp.
Westerlund 1885
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Planorbidae
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Gyraulus altissimus
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Gyraulus hornensis
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Helisoma trivovlus
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| "H. trivolvus trivolvis" | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Sphaeriidae
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Pisidium cf. subtruncatum
Malm 1855
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Ostracoda
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Cyclocypris serena
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Ostracoda
- Podocopida
- Limnocytheridae
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Limnocythere sp.
Brady 1868
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Ostracoda
- Podocopida
- Cyprididae
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Cypridopsis vidua
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Cypridopsis incongruens
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Ostracoda
- Podocopida
- Candonidae
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Candona rawsoni
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Candona candida
(Müller 1776)
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Ostracoda
- Podocopida
- Ilyocyprididae
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Ilyocypris bradyi
Sars 1890
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bison occidentalis
Lucas 1898
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| synonym of Bison antiquus | ||||||||||
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Pinopsida
- Pinales
- Pinaceae
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Pinus sp.
Linnaeus 1753
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| pollen; "grass pollen," loose "tracheids," "ergot sclerotinum," "herbaceous branches, "stem fragments," and fungal "hyphae" and "spores" are also present | ||||||||||
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Angiospermae
- Malpighiales
- Salicaceae
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Salix sp.
Linnaeus 1753
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| carbon-dated wood fragments | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 49.8° North, 112.2° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 49.8° North, 112.2° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
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 | ||
| Age estimate: | 11000 ± 250 to 10500 ± 200 YBP (14C) |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: radiocarbon dates on wood obtained from the bed "are 11 000 +/- 250 years... and 10 500 +/- 200 years" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | planar lamination,medium argillaceous sandstone |
| Lithology description: the unit consists of "Medium-grained sand, horizontally bedded, alluvial... no soil zones are present" and the invertebrates and pollen are from a "laminated clay from the bottom sand, containing shell fragments and very fine-grained organic matter" | |
| Environment: | lacustrine - small |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | late glacial |
| Geology comments: "alluvium deposited in an oxbow lake of the ancestral Oldman River" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Collectors: | L. A. Bayrock, J. F. Jones | Collection dates: | May 1957 |
| Collection method comments: Drumheller and District Museum collection
recovered by "excavation" | |||
| Taxonomic list comments:bison identification was "confirmed by Mr. M. F. Skinner" | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 93556 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-01-24 17:25:13 | Last modified: | 2010-01-24 19:33:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-01-24 17:25:13 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 31686. | C. Trylich and L. A. Bayrock. 1966. Bison occidentalis Lucas found at Taber, Alberta, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 3(7):987-995 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |