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Lab number
TO-1304
Material dated
prairie dog bone collagen; collagène osseux de chien de prairie
Taxa dated
Cynomys niobrarius churcherii (id. by J.A. Burns)
Locality
Hand Hills, 1090 m asl, Red Deer drainage, 28 km northeast of Drumheller, Alberta
Map sheet
82 P/09
Submitter
R.R. Young
Date submitted
June 23, 0097
Normalized Age
29610 ± 220
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
burrow cast in Saskatchewan Gravel, overlain in places by Late Wisconsinan till
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Spermophilus richardsonii, Spermophilus tridecemlineatus, Cynomys niobrarius churcherii, Thomomys talpoides, Lemmiscus curtatus, Peromyscus maniculatus, Lepus townsendii cf., Geomys sp, Microtus pennsylvanicus cf., Equus conversidens cf., Proboscidea; Aves, Amphibia
Comments
EjPb-VP, Winter: The Hand Hills local fauna, of Late Pleistocene age, indicates an area with extensive grasslands or open meadows.

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