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- Lab number
- GSC-1754
- Material dated
- mammoth bone collagen; collagène osseux de mammouth
- Taxa dated
- Mammuthus cf. M. columbi anterior rib fragment (496 g, CMN-17915)
- Locality
- Noranda open pit mine on Newman Peninsula, Babine Lake, Skeena drainage, British Columbia
- Map sheet
- 93 M/01
- Date submitted
- June 8, 0098
- Date uploaded
- February 14, 2020
- Normalized Age
- 34000 ± 690
- δ13C (per mil)
- -19.4
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- organic silt up to 6 m thickness, underlain by 6 m of clay, overlain by 0.3-1.5 m of gravel and up to 24 m of bluff to light grey till
- Comments
- GgSn-VP, Babine Lake: GSC-1754 on a rib from a partial skeleton of a large mammoth indicates that these mammals occupied central British Columbia during the Olympia nonglacial interval. Because pieces of wood associated with the skeletal remains yielded dates of 42,900 +/- 1860 BP (GSC-1657) and 43,800 +/- 1830 BP (GSC-1687), it would appear that the bones intruded from above. Perhaps the mammoth sank into sticky pond deposits and died there. Palaeobotanical data indicate that a type of shrub tundra covered the region during part of the Olympia nonglacial interval.