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Canada / NS / CbBx-? (Donkin) / I-2477
- Lab number
- I-2477
- Material dated
- beaver-gnawed wood; bois rongé par des castors
- Locality
- near Donkin, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia
- Map sheet
- 11 J/04
- Submitter
- K.N.H. Greenidge
- Date submitted
- March 11, 0098
- Measured Age
- 9590 ± 160
- Normalized Age
- 9590 ± 160
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- organic silt and peat overlying glacial till
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Castor canadensis (inferred from gnaw-marks on wood)
- Comments
- CbBx-VP, Donkin: This date demonstrates that beavers occupied the area only a millennium and a half after Wisconsinan ice vanished from the Cape Breton highlands.