Everything is a question of time – the age of important Quaternary palaeontological finds from Westphalia

Pages	454-459
DOI	10.2478/if-2017-0023
Keywords	Mammuthus, Ovibos, Bison, AMS-dating, Quaternary, Germany
Citation	BERTLING, Markus, DÖPPES, Doris a ROSENDAHL, Wilfried. Everything is a question of time – the age of important Quaternary palaeontological finds from Westphalia. Fossil Imprint / Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series B – Historia Naturalis. Prague: National Museum, 2017, 73(3-4), 454-459. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/if-2017-0023. ISSN 2533-4050 (tisk), 2533-4069 (online). Also available from: https://www.nm.cz/en/periodicals/fiamnpsbhn/73-3-4/everything-is-a-question-of-time-the-age-of-important-quaternary-palaeontological-finds-from-westphalia

Fossil Imprint / Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series B – Historia Naturalis | 2017/73/3-4

Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) was used to establish the age of three mammal specimens from the Quaternary of the Münsterland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The dated samples represent regionally important finds: The woolly mammoth from Ahlen with an age of 41 ka BP and the musk-ox from Herne with an age of 24 ka BP are typical representatives of the so-called mammoth steppe. The European Bison from Gladbeck with an age of 9.2 ka BP confirms the Early Holocene appearance of this species in Europe. 

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