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Science 21 May 1976:
Vol. 192. no. 4241, pp. 781 - 782
DOI: 10.1126/science.192.4241.781
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Paleogene Terrestrial Vertebrates: Northernmost Occurrence, Ellesmere Island, Canada

MARY R. DAWSON 1, ROBERT M. WEST 2, WANN LANGSTON JR. 3, and J. HOWARD HUTCHISON 4

1 Section of Vertebrate Fossils, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
2 Department of Geology, Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
3 Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory, Balcones Research Center, Austin, Texas 78757
4 Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley 94720

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 evidence in suggesting temperate to warm-temperate climatic conditions.

Submitted on January 22, 1976


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