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- Lab number
- GSC-2402
- Material dated
- wapiti bone collagen; collagène osseux de wapiti
- Taxa dated
- Cervus elaphus antler (id. by C.R. Harington)
- Locality
- Lanark Township, Mississippi River, Ottawa drainage, Lanark County, Ontario
- Map sheet
- 31 F/01
- Submitter
- D. Strickland
- Date submitted
- April 9, 0098
- Measured Age
- 270 ± 40
- Normalized Age
- 290 ± 40
- δ13C (per mil)
- -23.6
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- a former cedar swamp
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Cervus elaphus
- Comments
- BgGc-VP: Antler fragments were collected in 1900 and stored for 75 years before dating. Although Indian artifacts were found in the vicinity, they are not necessarily related to the antlers. C.R. Harington notes that the fragments represent at least two and probably three adult male wapiti. Probably the animals were present in Lanark Township during February to April when the antlers are usually shed. Presumably the specimens represent the eastern subspecies, Cervus elaphus canadensis, that became extinct in Canada about AD 1850, and which is now completely extinct. This is the first radiocarbon date on wapiti from Ontario. Harington also cites other Ontario occurrences of the species.