Caving Canada

Mountain Goat Femur

  • 12,000 year old mountain goat femur recovered from Northern Vancouver Island Cave.
    (Photo courtesy Royal British Columbia Museum.)

    • Details and implications of this find were presented in this paper:

    Nagorsen, D. W. and G. Keddie. 2000. Late Pleistocene mountain goats (Oreamnos americanus) from Vancouver Island: biogeographic implications. Journal of Mammalogy 81(3): 666-675

                 

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