Figure 1: Arctic circle and fossil sites. | Nature Communications

Figure 1: Arctic circle and fossil sites.

From: Mid-Pliocene warm-period deposits in the High Arctic yield insight into camel evolution

Figure 1

Locations (white stars) of fossil areas yielding the remains of Arctic giant camels are shown. Location 1. Fyles Leaf Bed (FLB) and Beaver Pond (BP) sites, Strathcona Fiord, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut; Location 2. Old Crow Basin, Yukon Territory. Grey shaded bathymetry indicates <100 m water depth. Yellow shading is current distribution of Beaufort Formation19. Schematic stratigraphic columns for the FLB and BP sections showing TCN sample depths and location of the source of the Camelini fossil fragments. St, silt; MS, medium sand; G, gravel.

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