The Age of the Woolly Rhino from Dream Cave, Derbyshire, UK

The Dream Cave woolly rhinoceros, Coelodonta antiquitatis, is a classic specimen of a cold-stage fossil fauna from central England. The find was illustrated and described by Dean William Buckland in his seminal tome Reliquiae Diluvianae (1823) during the first half of the 19th century, and made a significant contribution to the development of Buckland\u27s views on the origin of extinct and extirpated fossil vertebrates. The report presents the first, albeit indirect, radiometric dates on the specimen, and argues that the animal fell into the cave just before 37,000 years BP, during the middle of Marine Isotope Stage 3 Interstadial (41 - 39 ka BP)