Muskox Bone of Possible Wisconsin Age from Banks Island, Northwest Territories

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Maher, William J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1968
• Subjects: Muskoxen; Bones; Palaeontology; Refugia; Glacial epoch; Banks Island; N.W.T; Bernard River; Canada; Northwest Territories; Arctic; Lemmus sibiricus; Lepus arcticus; muskox; ovibos moschatus; Beringia
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66320

During a summer 1963 study of the terrestrial vertebrate fauna, a Bernard River locality was searched for fossils. The only specimen found was the right half of a left metacarpal of Ovibos moschatus with a radiocarbon age of >34,000 yr, suggesting that muskoxen were on Banks Island at the height...