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Canada / NT / NlPp-? / CAMS-60325
- Lab number
- CAMS-60325
- Field number
- 98-DCA-063
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (18 g, id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- about 9.8 km north of Cape Larsen and 20 km south 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
- 9060 ± 50
- δ13C (per mil)
- -20.4
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- cryoturbated till capped by peat, overlooking Amundsen Gulf
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- NlPp-VP: A complete periotic bone and a periotic stem were collected from a bowhead whale skull base 90% buried upright in cryoturbated till capped by peat. The tip of a large mandible was exposed here as well.