Muskox Pit (Pleistocene of Canada)
Where: Saskatchewan, Canada (52.1° N, 106.3° W: paleocoordinates 52.1° N, 106.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: T. SkwaraWoolf and J. F. V. Millar. 1981. Pleistocene muskox (Ovibos moschatus) from near Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 18 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details
PaleoDB collection 20620: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• from sand and gravel underlying a till of the Floral Fm. and therefore Sangamonian or older: see Skwara and Walker 1989
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Mammalia | |
Ovibos moschatus Zimmermann 1780 muskox |