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- Lab number
- GSC-454
- Material dated
- beluga bone collagen; collagène osseux de béluga
- Taxa dated
- Delphinapterus leucas
- Locality
- 100 m asl, 800 m northwest of Uplands Airport, regional municipality of Ottawa-Carleton, Rideau drainage, Ontario
- Map sheet
- 31 G/05
- Submitter
- N.R. Gadd
- Date submitted
- April 9, 0098
- Measured Age
- 10420 ± 150
- Normalized Age
- 10580 ± 150
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology, Champlain Sea; paléobiologie, Mer Champlain
- Context
- sand spit developed by shore currents in the Champlain Sea
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Delphinapterus leucas
- Additional information
- The carbonate fraction contained a level of 14C (105 +/- 0.65% std) that may reflect contamination by nuclear bomb carbon, indicating rapid exchange.
- Comments
- BiFw-VP, Foster Sand Pit: Harington (1978: 18) suggests that the white whale dated by GSC-454 was washed up on a beach of the Champlain Sea during an early formative stage of the Ottawa Delta. The whale skeleton has been fully restored and is preserved in the Canadian Museum of Nature.