The Beringian ancestry of Phenacomys (Rodentia: Cricetidae) and the beginning of the modern Arctic Ocean borderland biota
By: by Charles A. Repenning ... [et al.].
Contributors: Repenning, Charles Albert, 1922-
Series: U.S. Geological Survey bulletin ;; 1687
Publisher: Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey; Books and Open-File Reports Section, U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Denver, Colo
Language: eng
Subjects: Phenacomys, Fossil.; Paleontology -- Pliocene.; Paleontology -- Alaska -- Fish Creek Watershed (North Slope Borough); Paleontology -- Arctic regions.; Paleoclimatology -- Arctic regions.
Notes: Bibliography: p.
"Pliocene fossils from Fish Creek, Alaska, indicate a correlation of the oldest lowland tundra and cooling of the Arctic Ocean borderland with the oldest Northern Hemisphere glaciation."