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- Lab number
- GSC-1442
- Material dated
- wood; bois
- Taxa dated
- (20 g)
- Locality
- on the north bank of the South Saskatchewan River, 683 m asl, about 1 km west of Redcliff, Alberta
- Map sheet
- 72 L/02
- Submitter
- A.M. Stalker
- Date submitted
- May 26, 0098
- Measured Age
- 37900 ± 1100
- Normalized Age
- 37900 ± 1100
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- floodplain silt and clay containing much fine organic material and an abundant vertebrate fauna of mid-Wisconsinan age 1-2 m below the dated bed
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Lepus townsendii cf., Cynomys ludovicianus cf., Spermophilus richardsoni, Thomomys talpoides cf., Microtus sp, Canis latrans cf., Spilogale putorius cf., Smilodon floridanus, Mammuthus sp, Equus conversidens, Equus giganteus cf., Hemiauchenia stevensi?, Camelops hesternus, Odocoileus sp, Antilocapra americana cf., Bison bison
- Additional information
- GSC-1442-2: 38,700 +/- 1100 BP.
- Comments
- Galt Island Bluff, EaOq-VP: The fauna at this site represents a fairly warm climate. The wood bearing unit is overlain by about 15 m of stream and lake sand, silt, and clay, which is partly varved towards the top, and 15 m of the youngest till in the region. Elsewhere the floodplain silt and clay unit is overlain by two tills. GSC-1442 was made up of wood pieces that were >1 cm long, whereas GSC-1442-2 included some material of this size as well as some smaller pieces. Most of the pieces appeared to be bark. A.M. Stalker comments that sample GSC-1442-2 provides a maximum age for overlying till.