Don Valley Brickyard: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Marmota sp.
Frisch 1775
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"woodchuck... Marmota arctos" (no such species exists) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Castoroides ohioensis
Foster 1838
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Odocoileus virginianus
(Zimmermann 1780)
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bison sp.
Hamilton-Smith 1827
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Proboscidea
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Proboscidea indet.
Illiger 1811
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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] |