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Canada / SK / EfOa-5 (Kyle mammoth) / A-619
- Lab number
- A-619
- Material dated
- mammoth bone; os de mammouth
- Taxa dated
- Mammuthus columbi vertebra
- Locality
- near Kyle, South Saskatchewan drainage, Saskatchewan
- Map sheet
- 72 K/16
- Submitter
- T.F. Kehoe
- Date submitted
- May 20, 0098
- Measured Age
- 8650 ± 400
- Normalized Age
- 8685 ± 400
- δ13C (per mil)
- -22.8
- Significance
- palaeobiology, anomalous, young; paléobiologie, anormal, jeune
- Context
- about 2 m depth
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Mammuthus columbi
- Additional information
- The fraction employed was acid-soluble organic matter, suspected to give erroneously young ages.
- Comments
- EfOa-5, Kyle mammoth: Christiansen comments that the scattered skeletal remains and contorted pond deposits in which the mammoth was buried indicate that the remains were disturbed during melting of stagnant ice after the mammoth died.