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Stratigraphic range: Late Pleistocene
Kinds of fossils: Vertebrate
Quadrangle or area: Ambler River (A-5), Kobuk Valley
Shipment No.: A-82-6M
Referred by: Hamilton, Tom D.
Report prepared by: Repenning, Charles A.
Date: 03/17/1982

All specimens are being returned except the last, fibula 81 AHa 246.

Except for one horse cervical, your collections were all of mammoth bone. If the fauna is of importance to you, may I suggest looking a little more closely?

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81 AHa 071 , Ambler River , 67 deg. 4.5 min. N., 158 deg. 10 min. W., Ipiguruk Bluff, south side Kobuk River 16 km below village of Ambler, T 9 N, R 3 E, Sec. 3. NE+SE 1/4. 8 m above river. Bedded eolian and fluvial sand of last glaciation. Unnanmed formation. 1,538.3 along baseline.
Mammuthus primigenius (Blumbach), last lower molar
81 AHa 074B , Ambler River , 5 m above river, 2,250.8 m along baseline.
2 rib fragments
Mammuthus sp., 2 neural spines from vertebrae
81 AHa 092 , Ambler River , Near top of bluff. 1,160 m along baseline. From ?thaw lake deposits.
Mammuthus sp., incomplete neural spine of vertebra
81 AHa 097 , Ambler River , Redeposited at river edge. 960 m along baseline.
Mammuthus sp. First coccygeal vertebra; proximal portion of fibula
81 AHa 238B , Ambler River , 16.7 m above river, 2,250 m along baseline.
Equus sp. cf. E.(Asinus) lambei Hay, cervical vertebra of a small size comparable to the Arctic Ass
81 AHa 246 , Ambler River , 11.6 m above river, 1,170 m along baseline.
Mammuthus cf. M. primigenius (Blumbach), complete fibula