Muirkirk, northeast (Pleistocene of Canada)

Where: Ontario, Canada (42.5° N, 81.8° W: paleocoordinates 42.5° N, 81.8° W)

When: Erie clay Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• because the Muirkirk Mammoth is from the Ridgetown Island Moraine it probably dates after 12,700 BP.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified claystone

• brownish-grey clay con- taining small pebbles, known as “Erie clay” in this region

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. R. Harington, D. Mol, and J. Plicht. 2012. The Muirkirk Mammoth: A Late Pleistocene woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) skeleton from southern Ontario, Canada. Quaternary International 255:106-113 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 216260: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 09.12.2020

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus primigenius
Mammuthus primigenius Blumenbach 1799 wooly mammoth