Gold-run Creek Arctotherium (Pleistocene of Canada)

Where: Yukon, Canada (63.0° N, 131.7° W: paleocoordinates 63.1° N, 131.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• "in frozen Pleistocene deposits at a depth of forty feet"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying

• collector not indicated but "acquired by the Geological Survey"

Primary reference: L. M. Lambe. 1911. On Arctotherium from the Pleistocene of Yukon. Ottawa Naturalist 25(2):21-26 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93370: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.01.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Ursidae
"Arctotherium yukonense n. sp." = Arctodus simus
"Arctotherium yukonense n. sp." = Arctodus simus Cope 1879 giant short-faced bear