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Canada / ON / BaHb-? (Elba Cave) / TO-2566
- Lab number
- TO-2566
- Material dated
- pika bone collagen; collagène osseux de pica
- Taxa dated
- Ochotona sp. (id. by H. Savage)
- Locality
- Mono Cliffs Provincial Park, Niagara Escarpment, Dufferin County, Ontario
- Map sheet
- 41 A/01
- Submitter
- H. Savage
- Date submitted
- March 14, 0097
- Normalized Age
- 8670 ± 220
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- on an exposed ledge, 25 m depth, in the vertical cave entrance
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Ochotona sp
- Additional information
- AMS date.
- Comments
- BaHb-VP, Elba Cave: A giant pika femur was totally consumed for radiocarbon dating. The early Holocene date places a find of giant pika at Kelso Cave in a new light. Unlike Kelso Cave, the bones in Elba Cave were not cemented into a breccia but lay on exposed ledges within the cave entrance. Twenty mammalian species were recovered from these ledges. Martes americana is the only other species directly dated, and the remaining species are listed in a separate record that cannot be assigned an age.