Paleogene Terrestrial Vertebrates: Northernmost Occurrence, Ellesmere Island, Canada

• Published in: Science
• Main Authors: Dawson, Mary R., West, Robert M., Langston, Wann, Hutchison, J. Howard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1976
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Ellesmere Island; Eureka; Eureka Sound
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.192.4241.781; https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.192.4241.781

Recently discovered Paleogene land vertebrates from the Eureka Sound Formation at about latitude 78° north in Arctic Canada include fish, turtles, an alligatorid, and several taxa of mammals. The assemblage, which is probably early or middle Eocene in age, adds to previously known paleobotanical evi...