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Lab number
GSC-280
Field number
KF-36-64
Material dated
wood; bois
Locality
a diversion channel cut in the Assiniboine River floodplain, 10 km west of Russell, Manitoba
Map sheet
62 K/14
Submitter
R.W. Klassen
Measured Age
6320 ± 140
Normalized Age
6320 ± 140
δ13C (per mil)
-25.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
twigs in clayey alluvium associated with a bison skull
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Bison bison occidentalis
Comments
EeMi-VP: GSC-280 was taken from the bottom of a cut in an organic clay zone containing twigs and bone fragments along with a bison skull. The zone is overlain by 4 m of silty clay including beds of pelecypod-bearing silt, sand, and gravel, and is underlain by 18 m of clay, in part probably lacustrine. Klassen interprets the date as marking a late phase in valley filling. Nielsen et al. (1984: 837) suggest that the associated skull represents Bison bison occidentalis.

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