Jack Wade Creek: An in situ Alaskan Late Pleistocene Vertebrate Assemblage

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Porter, Lee
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1986
• Subjects: Mammals; Palaeontology; Pleistocene epoch; Steppe bison; Alaska; Central; Wade Creek; Yukon; Alces alces; Arctic; Béringie; Rangifer tarandus; Beringia
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65142

Sixty Late Pleistocene vertebrate fossils have been recovered from an inferred in situ sedimentary section of a placer mine near Jack Wade, east-central Alaska. The fossil assemblage, called the Jack Wade fauna, is composed of the partial remains of 18 animals, of which 11 are Ovis sp. cf. O. dalli...