RE: Boundries of the Late Pleistocene

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@umd.edu>]

While the boundary date for the Holocene (and thus the end of the Pleistocene) 
have indeed changed over time based on changing
definition and geochronology, I don't think it has ever been as young as 5ka!

BTW, current boundary is 11,700 calendar yrs b2k (the only unit that uses 2000 
CE rather than 1950 as "the present"):
https://engineering.purdue.edu/Stratigraphy/references/HoloceneGSSP_JQuatSci090.pdf

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Email: tholtz@umd.edu   Phone: 301-405-4084
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu] 
> On Behalf Of Saint Abyssal
> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 10:14 PM
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> Subject: Boundries of the Late Pleistocene
> 
> Have the range of dates regarded as "Late Pleistocene" ever 
> changed? Specifically, my conundrum is that I'm consulting a 
> ~50 year old source 
> (http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/48593/2/ID455
> .pdf) on some local fossils (the Fenton Lake bony fish) and 
> in one place in the paper it refers to remains as "Late 
> Pleistocene" (page 6) but in another area a chart implies 
> that the fossils are at most a hair over five thousand years 
> old (page 32). That date falls into the mid Holocene, so I'm 
> wondering if paleontologists have ever regarded such recent 
> dates as Late Pleistocene.
> 
> ~ Abyssal