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Canada / ON / AhHe-? (Innerkip) / GSC-1884
- Lab number
- GSC-1884
- Material dated
- peat; tourbe
- Locality
- 3.2 km southwest of Innerkip, right bank of Timms Creek, ca. 300 m asl, East Zorra Township, Oxford County, Ontario
- Map sheet
- 40 P/02
- Submitter
- W.R. Cowan
- Date submitted
- February 16, 2006
- Measured Age
- 0
- Normalized Age
- 0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- fossiliferous peat 3.5-3.9 m depth, below late Wisconsinan till
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Odocoileus virginianus, Ondatra zibethicus, Microtus pennsylvanicus, Mustelidae; Reptilia: Emydoidea blandingi; Insecta; Flora
- Additional information
- See Lowdon et al. (1977: 9) for other dates and discussion.
- Comments
- Innerkip: Vertebrate, invertebrate, and plant fossils were recovered from peat overlain by a detrital sapropel or organic mud. Of five radiocarbon samples, two were from the fossiliferous peat and three from the sapropel. Two finite dates were reported by the Brock Geological Sciences (BGS) laboratory, and three infinite dates were determined by the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC). The implications of the fossil assemblages favour the infinite dates. "Deposition probably occurred at the end of the Sangamon Interglaciation (Isotope Stage 5e) or during warm Early Wisconsinan interstadial (Isotope Stage 5c or 5a)" (Churcher et al., 1990: 299).