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Lab number
Beta-79915
Field number
JJO 94 050
Material dated
mammoth bone collagen; collagène osseux de mammouth
Taxa dated
Mammuthus sp. molar (CMN-50369, id. by C.R. Harington)
Locality
1 km southeast of the confluence of Barton Creek with Callum Creek, 1400 m asl, on the east side of highway 22, Oldman drainage, southwestern Alberta
Map sheet
82 G/16
Submitter
L.E. Jackson, Jr.
Date submitted
August 11, 0098
Measured Age
11170 ± 60
Normalized Age
11220 ± 60
δ13C (per mil)
-22.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
glaciolacustrine silt
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Mammuthus sp
Additional information
AMS date.
Comments
DlPm-VP: C.R. Harington measured this mammoth molar and tentatively suggested that it is a heavily worn and eroded lower first molar of the Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi). The date provides a minimum age for the glaciolacustrine silt on which the tooth occurred.

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