Wellsch Valley (Pleistocene of Canada)
Where: Saskatchewan, Canada (50.7° N, 107.9° W: paleocoordinates 50.7° N, 107.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)
• fauna is from Unit II, Unit III, and Unit IV
•age based on Barendregt et al. 1991; section goes from reversed to normal and fauna is clearly Irvingtonian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: C. S. Churcher. 1984. In W. C. Mahaney (ed.), Correlation of Quaternary Chronologies [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
PaleoDB collection 20563: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Jonathan Marcot
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Taxonomic list
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Mammalia | |
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"Equus pacificus" = Equus mexicanus, Equus complicatus
"Equus pacificus" = Equus mexicanus Hibbard 1955 horse
Equus complicatus Leidy 1858 horse | |
? Euceratherium sp. Furlong and Sinclair 1904 shrub-ox | |
? Tetrameryx sp. Lull 1921 pronghorn | |
Platygonus ? bicalcaratus Cope 1893 peccary | |
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Lynx cf. rufus Schreber 1777 bobcat | |
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? Oryzomys sp., Mictomys kansasensis1, Microtus paroperarius, Allophaiomys pliocaenicus3, Microtinae indet.1
? Oryzomys sp. Baird 1857 rice rat
Microtus paroperarius Hibbard 1944 vole | |
Thomomys talpoides Richardson 1828 northern pocket gopher | |
Spermophilus sp. Cuvier 1825 ground squirrel either "Citellus" cf. richardsoni or "C." cf. rexroadensis according to Barendregt et al. 1991
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? Megalonyx sp. Harlan 1825 edentate |