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- Lab number
- TO-7750
- Field number
- 98-DCA-044
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (57.0 g, id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- about 10.1 km south-southeast of Cape Baring, Wollaston Peninsula, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories
- Map sheet
- 87 C/15
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- June 20, 2000
- Normalized Age
- 8850 ± 130
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- eolian sand capped by peat on beach gravel, 32.5 m asl, overlooking Amundsen Gulf
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- NlPp-VP: Parts of the periotic bones were collected from both sides of a small bowhead whale skull buried in eolian sand and capped by peat resting on fine raised beach gravel. About 25 m away is a half skull of a larger bowhead (not sampled).