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Canada / AB / EjPc-? (Seward) / TO-1307
- Lab number
- TO-1307
- Material dated
- prairie dog bone collagen; collagène osseux de chien de prairie
- Taxa dated
- Cynomys niobrarius churcherii (id. by J.A. Burns)
- Locality
- 26.5 km northeast of Drumheller, Hand Hills, Red Deer drainage, Alberta
- Map sheet
- 82 P/09
- Submitter
- R.R. Young
- Date submitted
- June 23, 0097
- Normalized Age
- 25980 ± 180
- 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, Spermophilus richardsonii, Geomys sp, Microtus pennsylvanicus cf., Equus conversidens, Proboscidea
- Comments
- EjPc-VP, Courtney West: The Hand Hills local fauna, of Late Pleistocene age, indicates an area with extensive grasslands or open meadows.