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Canada / AB / EjPb-? (Winter) / RIDDL-681
- Lab number
- RIDDL-681
- Material dated
- prairie dog bone collagen; collagène osseux de chien de prairie
- Taxa dated
- Cynomys niobrarius churcherii (id. by J.A. Burns)
- Locality
- Hand Hills, 1090 m asl, Red Deer drainage, 28 km northeast of Drumheller, Alberta
- Map sheet
- 82 P/09
- Submitter
- R.R. Young
- Date submitted
- June 23, 0097
- Normalized Age
- 22200 ± 320
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- burrow cast in Saskatchewan Gravel, overlain in places by Late Wisconsinan till, enclosing gravels containing ice-wedge casts
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Cynomys niobrarius churcherii (see also TO-1304)
- Comments
- EjPb-VP, Winter: The Hand Hills local fauna, of Late Pleistocene age, indicates an area with extensive grasslands or open meadows.