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- Lab number
- GSC-1681
- Material dated
- snake bone collagen; collagène osseux de serpent
- Taxa dated
- Coluber constrictor, Elaphe obsoleta, Crotalus horridus
- Locality
- Churchill Park, 88 m asl, Hamilton, Lake Ontario, Ontario
- Map sheet
- 30 M/05
- Submitter
- C.S. Churcher
- Date submitted
- April 9, 0098
- Normalized Age
- 4330 ± 210
- δ13C (per mil)
- -20.1
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- unconsolidated and consolidated bands of calcium carbonate-cemented shore debris
- Associated taxa
- Reptilia: Coluber constrictor, Elaphe obsoleta, Crotalus horridus
- Comments
- AhGx-VP, Westdale Ravine: Vertebrae and ribs from blue racer, pilot snake and a few from timber rattlesnake yielded a date in agreement with the age previously estimated on the basis of the fauna, suggesting the climatic optimum.