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Canada / NS / CdCc-? (Ingonish) / GSC-1395
- Lab number
- GSC-1395
- Material dated
- caribou bone collagen; collagène osseux de caribou
- Taxa dated
- Rangifer tarandus metapodial
- Locality
- 0.8 km west of Keltic Lodge, 1.6 km southeast of Ingonish Center, 23 m asl, Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Nova Scotia
- Map sheet
- 11 K/09
- Submitter
- P.M. Youngman
- Date submitted
- July 24, 0098
- Normalized Age
- 40 ± 220
- δ13C (per mil)
- -22.4
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- forest peat 0.5 m thick filling kettles in hummocky ice contact gravel
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Rangifer tarandus
- Comments
- CdCc-VP, Ingonish: Youngman commented that since caribou were extirpated from the area in the 20th century, a much greater age was possible. However, the date is not surprising in view of the shallow depth of burial.