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Lab number
AECV-936C
Material dated
bison bone collagen; collagène osseux de bison
Taxa dated
Bison sp. radioulna
Locality
east Edmonton, North Saskatchewan River, Alberta
Map sheet
83 H/11
Submitter
J.A. Burns
Date submitted
September 23, 0098
Normalized Age
31750 ± 850
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel pit
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Bison sp, Canis lupus cf, Arctodus simus, Ursidae, Panthera leo atrox
Additional information
Only the bison is directly associated with this date. Other Mid-Wisconsinan taxa, not directly dated, are listed with it in this record.
Comments
Consolidated Pit 48: Both spruce wood (Picea sp.) and a variety of vertebrate fossils from this locality have been dated to the Mid-Wisconsinan Interstadial. The fossils were recovered from the so-called Saskatchewan Gravels, represented by 3-5 m of intercalated, cross-bedded gravels and sands laid down as braided-channel deposits in the thalweg of the Beverly valley, the pre-glacial ancestor of the North Saskatchewan River valley (Burns and Young, 1994: 393).

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