Don Valley Brickyard: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Marmota sp. Frisch 1775
"woodchuck... Marmota arctos" (no such species exists)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Castoroides ohioensis Foster 1838
Mammalia - Cervidae
Odocoileus virginianus (Zimmermann 1780)
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Proboscidea
Proboscidea indet. Illiger 1811
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Ontario
Coordinates: 43.8° North, 79.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.8° North, 79.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Don Beds
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:interglacial
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:said to be "18O stage 5"
Metadata
Database number:20587
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1995-03-26 00:00:00 Last modified:2007-09-18 13:28:02
Access level:the public Released:1995-03-26 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

1474. N. Eyles and N. E. Williams. 1992. Geological Society of America Special Paper 270 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]