Late Pleistocene Muskox ( Ovibos ) from the Early Wisconsin at Scarborough Bluffs, Ontario, Canada

An isolated right manual cannon-bone (fused metacarpals III + IV) of Ovibos moschatus has been identified from sediments at Scarborough Bluffs, Ontario, probably from stream deposits of the Pottery Road Formation that overlie the Scarborough Formation clays. This is the first record of muskox from a...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
Main Authors: Churcher, Charles S., Karrow, Paul F.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1977
Subjects:
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Canada
Scarborough
muskox
ovibos moschatus
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e77-032
http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e77-032
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Summary:An isolated right manual cannon-bone (fused metacarpals III + IV) of Ovibos moschatus has been identified from sediments at Scarborough Bluffs, Ontario, probably from stream deposits of the Pottery Road Formation that overlie the Scarborough Formation clays. This is the first record of muskox from an Early Wisconsin horizon at Scarborough.

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