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- Lab number
- GSC-2232
- Material dated
- mammoth bone collagen; collagène osseux de mammouth
- Taxa dated
- Mammuthus sp. tusk (658 g)
- Locality
- 3.2 km east-northeast of Vedder Crossing Bridge, 366 m east of the southeast corner of the Indian Reservation, Chilliwack Municipality, Fraser River, British Columbia
- Map sheet
- 92 H/04
- Date submitted
- June 5, 0098
- Date uploaded
- February 14, 2020
- Normalized Age
- 22700 ± 320
- δ13C (per mil)
- -22.2
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- sandy gravel exposed in a fresh face of the Bailey Gravel Pit
- Comments
- DgRl-VP, Vedder Crossing: This seems to be the first record of Quaternary elephant remains from the Fraser lowland. GSC-2232 suggests that such elephants, possibly mammoths (Mammuthus sp.), occupied Fraser Lowland prior to the peak of the late Wisconsinan glaciation. It is worth noting that several species of large Quaternary mammals, including mammoths and mastodons, probably reached southeastern Vancouver Island from the mainland about this time (30,000 to 17,000 BP) by crossing large, vegetated floodplains that filled the Strait of Georgia (Clague, 1976; Harington, 1975a, 1977c).