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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.

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