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Lab number
TO-7749
Field number
98-DCA-009
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic and capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
about 6 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
9200 ± 90
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
raised beach gravel 36 m asl, overlooking Amundsen Gulf
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
NlPp-VP: A periotic bone and a bulla were collected from a half bowhead whale skull base 70% embedded in beach gravel. A frontal bone and a vomer bone (palate) are nearby, and the other half of the skull base is about 100 m away in same beach ridge.

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