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Canada / ON / BbGm-? (Webb Bay) / TO-1107
- Lab number
- TO-1107
- Material dated
- caribou bone collagen; collagène osseux de caribou
- Taxa dated
- Rangifer sp. calcaneus (id. by L.J. Jackson)
- Locality
- east end of Rice Lake, Northumberland County, Ontario
- Map sheet
- 31 D/08
- Submitter
- L.J. Jackson
- Date submitted
- April 9, 0098
- Normalized Age
- 4950 ± 80
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- lodgment till, 1 m depth, to which the bone was transported from some other sedimentological environment, possibly by bioturbation
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Rangifer sp
- Additional information
- AMS date.
- Comments
- BbGm-VP, Webb Bay: Although originally interpreted as a possible late Pleistocene specimen, an AMS date on this caribou calcaneus places it in the Archaic period. Pavlish and Alcock demonstrate that the bone was intrusive into the lodgment till in which it was discovered.