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Lab number
TO-4875
Field number
DOA-94-13 (JB 94.9)
Material dated
ground squirrel bone collagen; collagène osseux de spermophile
Taxa dated
Spermophilus parryii (id. by C.R. Harington)
Locality
Stewart River, Yukon drainage, central Yukon Territory
Map sheet
115 P/11
Submitter
A. Duk-Rodkin
Date submitted
September 9, 0098
Normalized Age
11460 ± 80
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
sand near top of a 40 m exposure of Reid outwash, 1.0-1.5 m depth
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Spermophilus parryii
Comments
KjVe-VP, Stirling Bend Section, comment (A. Duk-Rodkin): The rodent bones were found in a sand wedge that developed during Late Wisconsinan time (McConnell Glaciation) in the central Yukon. The sand wedge is west of the limit of the McConnell Glaciation on an outwash surface of pre-Illinoian age.

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