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Canada / ON / AjHg-? (Rostock) / WAT-945
- Lab number
- WAT-945
- Material dated
- mammoth bone collagen; collagène osseux de mammouth
- Taxa dated
- Mammuthus primigenius scapula
- Locality
- 15 km north of Stratford, Perth County, Ontario
- Map sheet
- 40 P/11
- Submitter
- J.H. McAndrews
- Date submitted
- May 5, 0098
- Measured Age
- 4290 ± 120
- Normalized Age
- 4370 ± 120
- δ13C (per mil)
- -20.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology, anomalous, young; paléobiologie, anormal, jeune
- Context
- cultivated surface of a peaty swale
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Mammuthus primigenius
- Additional information
- The bone was decayed and spongy with rootlets evident, and it presented problems during pre-treatment of the sample.
- Comments
- AjHg-VP, Rostock: Mammoth remains, including a skull fragment with upper M2, a cervical vertebra, a scapula and a limb bone fragment, were found on the cultivated surface of a peaty swale. Excavation revealed tusk fragments at 27 cm depth, which is taken to be the original burial position. Bone collagen yielded an anomalously young age, whereas a date on tusk collagen is concordant with pollen evidence. Five sediment samples removed from cavities within the skull contained pollen spectra consistent with zones 1b and 2a, dated to late glacial time at the nearby Poole Farm section. Nineteen species of molluscs and 2000 individual insects from 16 families have also been recovered from this site.