The estimated age of the camel fossil was obtained using a terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide[4] (TCN) burial dating technique,[5][6] which was applied to quartz sand containing the fossils.[4] These deposits are at least 3.4 million years old and equivalent in age to the mammal fossil record in the nearby Beaver Pond fossil site.[7] The deposits hosting the camel remains correlate to the Beaufort Formation,[1] which was emplaced prior the onset of extensive North American glaciation at ~2.6 Ma.[8]