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- Lab number
- SI-2816
- Material dated
- mammoth bone collagen; collagène osseux de mammouth
- Taxa dated
- cf. Mammuthus sp. humerus (11A75-2310, id. by B.F. Beebe)
- Locality
- left bank of Old Crow River, 259 m asl, 61.9 km above the river mouth, Porcupine drainage, northern Yukon Territory
- Map sheet
- 116 O/13
- Submitter
- W.N. Irving
- Date submitted
- June 17, 0097
- Measured Age
- 36650 ± 1300
- Normalized Age
- 36730 ± 1300
- δ13C (per mil)
- -20.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- river bank, point bar
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: cf. Mammuthus sp
- Additional information
- The apatite fraction of this bone yielded a date of >41,000 BP. Harington (2003: 425) lists this incorrectly as a Bison date.
- Comments
- MkVl-12, Old Crow River Locality CRH-11A: This is one of the most productive collecting localities in Old Crow Basin, but all of the fossils have been redeposited from elsewhere.