Giant Beaver, Castoroides ohioensis, remains in Canada and an overlooked report from Ontario

Canadian Field-Naturalist

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 330-333

  Harington, C Richard ^a  

^a CANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Castoroides ohioensis; Earliest Canadian record; Giant Beaver; Highgate; Ontario; Paleoenvironment; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RODENT; SKELETAL REMAINS; SKULL;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

RODENTIA; URSUS AMERICANUS;

EID: 60749124404     PISSN: 00083550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22621/cfn.v121i3.486     Document Type: Article

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