Baillie Islands, Pleistocene (Pleistocene of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (70.6° N, 128.2° W: paleocoordinates 70.6° N, 128.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• 14920 +- 160 yBP

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. R. Harington. 1990. Ice Age Vertebrates in the Canadian Arctic Islands. Canada's Missing Dimension I:140-160 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 73726: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 26.06.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus maritimus
Ursus maritimus Phipps 1774 polar bear
 Carnivora - Phocidae
Phoca hispida
Phoca hispida Schreber 1775 ringed seal
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Rangifer tarandus
Rangifer tarandus Linnaeus 1758 reindeer
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Ovibos moschatus, Saiga tatarica, Bison sp.
Ovibos moschatus Zimmermann 1780 muskox
Saiga tatarica Linnaeus 1758 saiga
originally entered as "Saiga tatrica"
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827 bison
 Cetacea - Balaenidae
Balaena mysticetus
Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus 1758 bowhead whale
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp.
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus primigenius
Mammuthus primigenius Blumenbach 1799 wooly mammoth