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Lab number
I-7796
Material dated
wapiti bone collagen; collagène osseux de wapiti
Taxa dated
Cervus elaphus humerus (CMN-17048)
Locality
right bank of Old Crow River, near Standing Rock Creek, Porcupine drainage, northern Yukon Territory
Map sheet
116 O/12
Submitter
C.R. Harington
Date submitted
June 17, 0097
Measured Age
4570 ± 100
Normalized Age
4650 ± 100
δ13C (per mil)
-20.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
river bank
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Cervus elaphus
Additional information
Harington (1977) gives the lab number as I-4225.
Comments
MkVl-1, Old Crow River Locality CRH-1: Only the shaft of a wapiti humerus was sacrificed for dating. The proximal and distal ends are preserved in the Canadian Museum of Nature (NMC-17048), because they exhibit interesting but unexplained striated facets.

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