Radiocarbon Dates on Saiga Antelope (Saiga Tatarica) Fossils from Yukon and the Northwest Territories

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Harington, C.R., Cinq-Mars, Jaques
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1995
• Subjects: Animal distribution; Bones; Climate change; Glacial epoch; Palaeoecology; Palaeontology; Pleistocene epoch; Radiocarbon dating; Saigas; Vertebrates; Glaciation; Baillie Islands; N.W.T; Old Crow region; Yukon; Baillie; Canada; Northwest Territories; Arctic; Old Crow; Territoires du Nord-Ouest; toundra
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64273

Saiga antelopes (Saiga tatarica), presently confined to Central Asia, spread westward to England and eastward to the Northwest Territories of Canada during the late Pleistocene. Two saiga cranial fragments from the Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories have yielded radiocarbon dates of 13 39...