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- Lab number
- QU-717
- Material dated
- moose bone collagen; collagène osseux d'orignal
- Taxa dated
- Alces alces
- Locality
- near St-Elzéar-de-Bonaventure, Gaspésie, Québec
- Map sheet
- 22 A/03
- Submitter
- P. LaSalle
- Date submitted
- October 5, 2005
- Measured Age
- 4400 ± 130
- Normalized Age
- 4480 ± 130
- δ13C (per mil)
- -20.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- level 4; zone 3, 49-119 cm (1977), 60-80 cm (1978), Phenacomys present, Dicrostonyx absent
- Associated taxa
- Zone 3: Mammalia, Sorex arcticus 3, Sorex cinereus 311, Sorex fumeus 17, Sorex gaspensis 4, Sorex palustris 1, Sorex hoyi 52, Blarina brevicauda 41, Myotis lucifugus 5, Lepus americanus 3, Marmota monax 3, Tamias striatus 2, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus 1, Glaucomys sabrinus 3, Peromyscus maniculatus 10, Clethrionomys gapperi 366, Synaptomys cooperi 19, Synaptomys borealis 239, Phenacomys intermedius 22, Aves; Amphibia; Mollusca
- Comments
- St-Elzéar Cave: This site contains an important sequence of four faunal assemblages presented in terms of four zones numbered from youngest to oldest. However, the six radiocarbon dates are reported in terms of excavation levels, among which there appear to be some stratigraphic reversals. Therefore it is not yet clear how the faunas are related to the dates. Except for the American toad, the birds and amphibians are listed as totals not assigned to zones (LaSalle, 1984: Table 1), and all of these are placed in Zone 1 in this database. A second list of amphibians, published by Fay (1984), differs slightly from the data in LaSalle (1984). Fauna: Microtus pennsylvanicus 37, Microtus chrotorrhinus 432, Napaeozapus insignis 37, Zapus hudsonius 1, Erethizon dorsatum 2, Ursus americanus 1, Mustela nivalis 1, Alces alces 1; Amphibia: Bufo americanus 20