CARD fuzzes location data for public visitors to the database. Accessing CARD's full capabilities requires an account available only to researchers at accredited institutions.
- Lab number
- TO-5650
- Field number
- DF-95-98-115
- Material dated
- bison bone collagen; collagène osseux de bison
- Taxa dated
- Bison cf. B. priscus right metacarpal (id. by C.R. Harington)
- Locality
- confluence of Thomas Gulch and Klondike River, 340 m asl, 3 km east of Dawson, Yukon drainage, Yukon Territory
- Map sheet
- 116 B/03
- Submitter
- A. Duk-Rodkin
- Date submitted
- September 9, 0098
- Normalized Age
- 39290 ± 540
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- grey sandy silt 5 cm below the surface of a natural cutbank exposure in an abandoned alluvial fan
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Bison priscus cf.
- Additional information
- AMS date.
- Comments
- LbVl-VP: C.R. Harington reports that a bison bone was collected 3.5 m above the present Klondike River in a 13.5 m exposure of alluvial fan sediments deposited from Thomas Gulch. Sediments above the specimen consist of a bouldery, sandy diamicton with interbedded lenses of fluvial pebbly sand. The collectors estimate the age of the bone to be between 25,000 and 5,000 BP and consider that this fossil could provide a minimum age for the entrenchment of the Klondike River to its present base level, marked by the deposition of the alluvial fan sediments. It could also provide a minimum age for the Klondike River placer gold deposits. This is a new locality for Pleistocene bone. Excess sample material was sent to the Canadian Museum of Nature.