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Lab number
GSC-1220 2
Field number
68/GS-51
Material dated
mastodon femur bone (collagen?)
Taxa dated
Mammut americanum (id. by C.S. Churcher)
Locality
modern floodplain of the Middle River, 2.5 km south-southeast of Middle River bridge, near Lower Middle River, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
Map sheet
011 K/02
Submitter
D.R. Grant
Date updated
December 31, 1987
Measured Age
31 ± 500
Normalized Age
31 ± 500
δ13C (per mil)
-19.8
Significance
nonglacial; palaeoenvironment; paleobiology
Context
12 cm (5") depth in recent alluvium

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