New Radiocarbon-Dated Vertebrate Fossils from Herschel Island: Implications for the Palaeoenvironments and Glacial Chronology of the Beaufort Sea Coastlands

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Zazula, Grant D., Hare, P. Gregory, Storer, John E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2009
• Subjects: Pleistocene; Yukon; Herschel Island; palaeontology; Beringia; mammals; fossils; Buckland Glaciation; Beaufort Shelf; chronology; Pléistocène; île Herschel; paléontologie; Béringie; mammifères; fossiles; glaciation de Buckland; plateforme de Beaufort; chronologie; Dorsale; Fairbanks; La Dorsale; Pauline Cove; Arctic; Beaufort Sea; Herschel; Ice Sheet; north slope; Alaska
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/63211

Palaeontological research on Herschel Island, Yukon, has yielded a diverse collection of Quaternary marine and terrestrial vertebrate fossils. The terrestrial faunal remains, which have largely been collected as allochthonous beach debris at Pauline Cove, are dominated by Yukon horse (Equus sp.), wi...