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Lab number
RL-1058
Material dated
mammoth bone collagen; collagène osseux de mammouth
Taxa dated
Mammuthus sp. tusk (id. by C. Sternberg)
Locality
Bow River, 14th Street and Northmount Drive, Calgary, Alberta
Map sheet
82 O/01
Submitter
M.C. Wilson
Date submitted
March 8, 0098
Measured Age
4000 ± 130
Normalized Age
4080 ± 130
δ13C (per mil)
-20.0
Significance
palaeobiology, anomalous, young; paléobiologie, anormal, jeune
Context
pit for Cambrian Plaza apartments, possibly from an old spillway or meltwater channel remnant
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Mammuthus sp
Additional information
Probably contaminated by shellac. It is assumed that this date was not corrected previously for isotopic fractionation.
Comments
EgPm-VP, Cambrian Plaza: The provenience of a mammoth tusk was not documented, and a date on the specimen is suspect because it had been shellacked.

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