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Canada / SK / EfOa-5 (Kyle mammoth) / S-246
- Lab number
- S-246
- Material dated
- mammoth bone; os de mammouth
- Taxa dated
- Mammuthus columbi
- Locality
- near Kyle, South Saskatchewan drainage, Saskatchewan
- Map sheet
- 72 K/16
- Submitter
- E.A. Christiansen
- Date submitted
- May 20, 0098
- Measured Age
- 12000 ± 200
- Normalized Age
- 12035 ± 200
- δ13C (per mil)
- -22.8
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- oxidized, clayey sand, contorted pond deposits, 0-1.3 m depth
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Mammuthus columbi
- Additional information
- Sample pre-treated by charring the whole bone. Age normalized with the 13C ratio reported for this skeleton by the Arizona lab.
- Comments
- EfOa-5, Kyle mammoth: Christiansen comments that the scattered skeletal remains and contorted pond deposits in which the mammoth was buried indicate that the remains were disturbed during melting of stagnant ice after the mammoth died.