A middle Holocene steppe bison and paleoenvironments from the Versleuce Meadows, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.
A partial skeleton of a bison was recovered during residential house construction in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. The specimen represents a young (estimated 6 year old) bison individual that died, was partially scavenged by carnivores, and subsequently buried by calcareous silt sediment in a pond or s...
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ftunivtoronto:oai:localhost:1807/78639 2023-05-15T18:44:11+02:00 A middle Holocene steppe bison and paleoenvironments from the Versleuce Meadows, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. Zazula, Grant Hall, Elizabeth Hare, P. Greg Thomas, Christian Mathewes, Rolf W. La Farge, Catherine Martel, André L Heintzman, Peter Shapiro, Beth 2017-06-15 http://hdl.handle.net/1807/78639 http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjes-2017-0100 unknown NRC Research Press (a division of Canadian Science Publishing) 0008-4077 http://hdl.handle.net/1807/78639 http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjes-2017-0100 Article 2017 ftunivtoronto 2020-06-17T12:06:14Z A partial skeleton of a bison was recovered during residential house construction in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. The specimen represents a young (estimated 6 year old) bison individual that died, was partially scavenged by carnivores, and subsequently buried by calcareous silt sediment in a pond or small lake during the middle Holocene, ~ 5,400 years ago. Palaeoenvironmental data, including molluscs, pollen, vascular plant, and bryophyte macrofossils demonstrate that the small waterbody was surrounded by white spruce dominated boreal forest. Morphometric analysis of the skeleton reveals that its taxonomic affinity is ambiguous, likely due to it representing an ontogenetically young individual, though it does share some cranial and horn core characteristics of named species such as Bison occidentalis or Bison priscus. Mitochondrial genomic data confirm that this bison belongs to Clade 2A (northern clade), which represents Pleistocene steppe bison (B. cf. priscus) in Beringia through the Holocene and is not represented in living bison species (Shapiro et al. 2004; Heintzman et al. 2016). These data further demonstrate that northern steppe bison population survived the late Pleistocene extinction event, persisted locally in southern Yukon into the Holocene, and are best characterized as a species with a high degree of morphological variability and ecological flexibility. The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author. Article in Journal/Newspaper Whitehorse Beringia Yukon University of Toronto: Research Repository T-Space Canada Yukon |
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A partial skeleton of a bison was recovered during residential house construction in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. The specimen represents a young (estimated 6 year old) bison individual that died, was partially scavenged by carnivores, and subsequently buried by calcareous silt sediment in a pond or small lake during the middle Holocene, ~ 5,400 years ago. Palaeoenvironmental data, including molluscs, pollen, vascular plant, and bryophyte macrofossils demonstrate that the small waterbody was surrounded by white spruce dominated boreal forest. Morphometric analysis of the skeleton reveals that its taxonomic affinity is ambiguous, likely due to it representing an ontogenetically young individual, though it does share some cranial and horn core characteristics of named species such as Bison occidentalis or Bison priscus. Mitochondrial genomic data confirm that this bison belongs to Clade 2A (northern clade), which represents Pleistocene steppe bison (B. cf. priscus) in Beringia through the Holocene and is not represented in living bison species (Shapiro et al. 2004; Heintzman et al. 2016). These data further demonstrate that northern steppe bison population survived the late Pleistocene extinction event, persisted locally in southern Yukon into the Holocene, and are best characterized as a species with a high degree of morphological variability and ecological flexibility. The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author. |
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Zazula, Grant Hall, Elizabeth Hare, P. Greg Thomas, Christian Mathewes, Rolf W. La Farge, Catherine Martel, André L Heintzman, Peter Shapiro, Beth |
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Zazula, Grant Hall, Elizabeth Hare, P. Greg Thomas, Christian Mathewes, Rolf W. La Farge, Catherine Martel, André L Heintzman, Peter Shapiro, Beth A middle Holocene steppe bison and paleoenvironments from the Versleuce Meadows, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. |
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Zazula, Grant Hall, Elizabeth Hare, P. Greg Thomas, Christian Mathewes, Rolf W. La Farge, Catherine Martel, André L Heintzman, Peter Shapiro, Beth |
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Zazula, Grant |
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A middle Holocene steppe bison and paleoenvironments from the Versleuce Meadows, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. |
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A middle Holocene steppe bison and paleoenvironments from the Versleuce Meadows, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. |
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A middle Holocene steppe bison and paleoenvironments from the Versleuce Meadows, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. |
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A middle Holocene steppe bison and paleoenvironments from the Versleuce Meadows, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. |
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A middle Holocene steppe bison and paleoenvironments from the Versleuce Meadows, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. |
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middle holocene steppe bison and paleoenvironments from the versleuce meadows, whitehorse, yukon, canada. |
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NRC Research Press (a division of Canadian Science Publishing) |
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2017 |
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http://hdl.handle.net/1807/78639 http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjes-2017-0100 |
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Whitehorse Beringia Yukon |
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