Also known as Eddas Bench

Where: Yukon, Canada (63.1° N, 139.3° W: paleocoordinates 63.1° N, 139.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• said to be late Irvingtonian, Middle Pleistocene, below the 190 ka Sheep Creek tephra, and in a normally reversed section and therefore younger than 780 ka

•"A 15 m thick section" with fossils "from the lowest of four strata at Eddas Bench, Organic 1" which is "approximately 3.5 m thick before melting of included ice"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; paleosol/pedogenic siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 1999, 2001

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), sieve,

• small mammals were collected by screenwashing, and large mammals by collecting "in place... using standard prospecting techniques"

•collections are in the Heritage Resources Unit of the Yukon Government in Whitehorse

Primary reference: J. E. Storer. 2004. A Middle Pleistocene (late Irvingtonian) mammalian fauna from Thistle Creek, Klondike Goldfields region of Yukon Territory, Canada. Paludicola 4(4):137-150 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74336: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 02.08.2007

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