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- Lab number
- GSC-805
- Material dated
- bison bone collagen; collagène osseux de bison
- Taxa dated
- mainly Bison sp. and Equus sp.
- Locality
- west bank of the South Saskatchewan River, 663 m asl, 3.5 km north of Medicine Hat, Alberta
- Map sheet
- 72 L/02
- Submitter
- A.M. Stalker
- Date submitted
- May 26, 0098
- Measured Age
- 11200 ± 200
- Normalized Age
- 11280 ± 200
- δ13C (per mil)
- -20.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel laid down when the river bed was 25-50' above present level
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Bison sp, Equus sp
- Comments
- EaOp-VP, Lindoe Bluff: GSC-805 gives the age of an abundant mammal fauna at this site and indicates that the South Saskatchewan River incised rapidly immediately following the last glaciation, but downcutting soon slowed.