Moose River Crossing: Late Pleistocene, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Mammut americanum
(Kerr 1792)
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Ontario |
| Coordinates: | 50.8° North, 81.3° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | |||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
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
| Formation: | Missinabi | ||||
| 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
Metadata
| Database number: | 20618 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 1785. | C. R. Harington. 1990. Vertebrates of the Last Interglaciation in Canada: A Review, with New Data. Geographie physique et Quaternaire 44(3) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |