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Canada / AB / GaPc-? (Pakan) / GSC-1207
- Lab number
- GSC-1207
- Material dated
- bison bone collagen; collagène osseux de bison
- Taxa dated
- Bison sp. tibia and rib (300 g, id. by C.S. Churcher)
- Locality
- north bank of the North Saskatchewan River, 570 m asl, 6 km northeast of Pakan and 12 km southeast of Smoky Lake, Alberta
- Map sheet
- 83 I/01
- Submitter
- D.A. St-Onge
- Date submitted
- May 26, 0098
- Measured Age
- 5900 ± 140
- Normalized Age
- 6040 ± 140
- δ13C (per mil)
- -16.9
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- sandy silty alluvium exposed in a natural cutbank, 1.8 m depth, in a postglacial river terrace halfway up the valley side
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Bison sp
- Comments
- GaPc-VP, Pakan: The bones date a well developed abandoned terrace (the middle of a set of three) on the north wall of the valley. The terrace records the time when the river floodplain was at an elevation of about 570 m, about 20 m above present river level.