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- Lab number
- SI-4314
- Material dated
- plant remains; restes de plantes
- Locality
- inner south shore of Clements Markham Inlet, 14.5 m asl, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 120 F/11
- Submitter
- T.G. Stewart
- Date submitted
- August 25, 0098
- Normalized Age
- 6400 ± 60
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- proximal bottomset beds of a delta, 2 m above the skeleton of an oldsquaw duck
- Associated taxa
- Aves, Clangula hyemalis
- Comments
- UdAq-VP: An age of 6500 BP is estimated for the carcass of an oldsquaw duck (Clangula hyemalis) recovered 2 m below the plant remains dated by SI-4314. This is the earliest Holocene bird yet reported from the Canadian High Arctic, and it is preserved in the Canadian Museum of Nature (NMC-43777).