The Muirkirk Mammoth:A Late Pleistocene woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) skeleton from southern Ontario, Canada
The Muirkirk Mammoth, found in 1895 2.4 km northeast of the village of Muirkirk in southern Ontario, is the most complete woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) skeleton known from Canada. Approximate tusk measurements and extreme wear on the sixth molars indicate it is best referred to an old male....
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ftunigroningenpu:oai:pure.rug.nl:publications/0fea86af-68dc-4687-8dd0-d11903670bd6 2024-06-02T08:15:25+00:00 The Muirkirk Mammoth:A Late Pleistocene woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) skeleton from southern Ontario, Canada Harington, C. R. Mol, Dick van der Plicht, Johannes 2012-03-26 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/11370/0fea86af-68dc-4687-8dd0-d11903670bd6 https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/0fea86af-68dc-4687-8dd0-d11903670bd6 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.05.038 https://pure.rug.nl/ws/files/6776247/2012QuatIntHarington.pdf eng eng https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/0fea86af-68dc-4687-8dd0-d11903670bd6 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Harington , C R , Mol , D & van der Plicht , J 2012 , ' The Muirkirk Mammoth : A Late Pleistocene woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) skeleton from southern Ontario, Canada ' , Quaternary International , vol. 255 , no. 2 , pp. 106-113 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.05.038 NORTH-AMERICA TAPHONOMY BERINGIA REMAINS ALBERTA TOOTH article 2012 ftunigroningenpu https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.05.038 2024-05-07T18:55:18Z The Muirkirk Mammoth, found in 1895 2.4 km northeast of the village of Muirkirk in southern Ontario, is the most complete woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) skeleton known from Canada. Approximate tusk measurements and extreme wear on the sixth molars indicate it is best referred to an old male. Its geological age was controversial because the first two Holocene bone collagen radiocarbon dates were derived evidently from contaminated samples. Three new radiocarbon dates on carefully selected bone and ivory are close, averaging 12,190 BP, and indicate that this mammoth died before the close of the Wisconsinan glaciation and near the time of extinction of woolly mammoths in this part of North America. Its assignment to regional pollen subzone 1b suggests that, like the Rostock Mammoth of similar age from southern Ontario, it lived in a tundra woodland environment. The Highgate Mastodon (Mammut americanum) and giant beaver (Castoroides ohioensis) found 4 km away and also assigned to pollen subzone 1b suggests that some spruce wetlands characterised the tundra woodland environment, and that perhaps woolly mammoths and American mastodons lived almost side by side in southern Ontario about12,000 radiocarbon years or 14,000 calendar years ago. The Muirkirk Mammoth is discussed in relation to the dispersal history of woolly mammoths. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved. Article in Journal/Newspaper Tundra Beringia University of Groningen research database Canada Quaternary International 255 106 113 |
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The Muirkirk Mammoth, found in 1895 2.4 km northeast of the village of Muirkirk in southern Ontario, is the most complete woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) skeleton known from Canada. Approximate tusk measurements and extreme wear on the sixth molars indicate it is best referred to an old male. Its geological age was controversial because the first two Holocene bone collagen radiocarbon dates were derived evidently from contaminated samples. Three new radiocarbon dates on carefully selected bone and ivory are close, averaging 12,190 BP, and indicate that this mammoth died before the close of the Wisconsinan glaciation and near the time of extinction of woolly mammoths in this part of North America. Its assignment to regional pollen subzone 1b suggests that, like the Rostock Mammoth of similar age from southern Ontario, it lived in a tundra woodland environment. The Highgate Mastodon (Mammut americanum) and giant beaver (Castoroides ohioensis) found 4 km away and also assigned to pollen subzone 1b suggests that some spruce wetlands characterised the tundra woodland environment, and that perhaps woolly mammoths and American mastodons lived almost side by side in southern Ontario about12,000 radiocarbon years or 14,000 calendar years ago. The Muirkirk Mammoth is discussed in relation to the dispersal history of woolly mammoths. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved. |
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The Muirkirk Mammoth:A Late Pleistocene woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) skeleton from southern Ontario, Canada |
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The Muirkirk Mammoth:A Late Pleistocene woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) skeleton from southern Ontario, Canada |
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The Muirkirk Mammoth:A Late Pleistocene woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) skeleton from southern Ontario, Canada |
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The Muirkirk Mammoth:A Late Pleistocene woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) skeleton from southern Ontario, Canada |
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The Muirkirk Mammoth:A Late Pleistocene woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) skeleton from southern Ontario, Canada |
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muirkirk mammoth:a late pleistocene woolly mammoth (mammuthus primigenius) skeleton from southern ontario, canada |
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Harington , C R , Mol , D & van der Plicht , J 2012 , ' The Muirkirk Mammoth : A Late Pleistocene woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) skeleton from southern Ontario, Canada ' , Quaternary International , vol. 255 , no. 2 , pp. 106-113 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.05.038 |
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