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Lab number
CAMS-34960
Field number
96-BJB-0044
Material dated
muskox bone collagen; collagène osseux de boeuf musqué
Taxa dated
Ovibos moschatus femur (id. by J. Bednarski)
Locality
the northern mouth of Stuart River valley, Bathurst Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
69 A/04
Submitter
J. Bednarski
Date submitted
September 9, 0098
Normalized Age
6240 ± 60
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
interbedded fine sand and pebbly gravel, 24 m asl
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Ovibos moschatus
Additional information
AMS date
Comments
RaLl-VP, comment (J. Bednarski): A muskox femur was protruding from silty sand in a stratigraphic section about 13 m above the floor of a gully. It appears to have recently thawed from the sediments and been exposed by gully erosion. The bone was probably frozen in permafrost since the sediments emerged from the sea ca. 6 ka ago. The sample was found in the same sediments that paired marine valves were found (96BJB0043; GSC-6159). This sample was submitted as a cross reference for shell sample BJB960043. If not contaminated it should provide a maximum age of the enclosing sediment, and it should provide an early age for postglacial occupation of Bathurst Island by muskoxen. This sample is part of a series from the same stratigraphic section (96BJB0042, CAMS-34099; 96BJB0043, GSC-6159).

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