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Lab number
S-246
Material dated
mammoth bone; os de mammouth
Taxa dated
Mammuthus columbi
Locality
near Kyle, South Saskatchewan drainage, Saskatchewan
Map sheet
72 K/16
Submitter
E.A. Christiansen
Date submitted
May 20, 0098
Measured Age
12000 ± 200
Normalized Age
12035 ± 200
δ13C (per mil)
-22.8
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
oxidized, clayey sand, contorted pond deposits, 0-1.3 m depth
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Mammuthus columbi
Additional information
Sample pre-treated by charring the whole bone. Age normalized with the 13C ratio reported for this skeleton by the Arizona lab.
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.

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