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Lab number
I-3576
Material dated
mammoth bone collagen; collagène osseux de mammouth
Taxa dated
Mammuthus primigenius rib
Locality
Whitestone River, 400 m asl, Porcupine drainage, Yukon Territory
Map sheet
116 J/08
Submitter
C.R. Harington
Date submitted
June 22, 0098
Measured Age
30300 ± 2000
Normalized Age
30380 ± 2000
δ13C (per mil)
-20.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
alluvium
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Mammuthus primigenius
Comments
McVh-VP, Whitestone mammoth: Much of the skeleton of an adult female woolly mammoth was collected by C.R. Harington and P. Lord in 1967. Peat associated with the mammoth bones yielded a date of 40,600 +/- 1520 BP (GSC-2929). The peat was sampled to obtain palaeoenvironmental information about the region where the mammoth died. In view of its much older age, the peat sample does not fulfill this requirement, but the peat date is reasonable if the mammoth died after becoming mired and sinking into a peat bog deposit that had been laid down much earlier.

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