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

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Taxonomic list

• from sand and gravel underlying a till of the Floral Fm. and therefore Sangamonian or older: see Skwara and Walker 1989
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Ovibos moschatus Zimmermann 1780 muskox