Where: San Juan County, Washington (48.6° N, 122.9° W: paleocoordinates 48.6° N, 122.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; peat
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: M. Wilson, S. Kenady and R. Schalk. 2009. Late Pleistocene Bison antiquus from Orcas Island, Washington, and the biogeographic importance of an early postglacial land mammal dispersal corridor from the mainland to Vancouver Island. Quaternary Research 71(1):49-61 [M. Uhen/A. Henshaw]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 188667: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Alexandra Henshaw on 11.09.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Bison antiquus Leidy 1852 bison |