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Lab number
TO-8012
Field number
98-DCA-074
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus rib (130 g, id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
about 11.1 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
9930 ± 80
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
coarse beach gravel, 52 m asl, overlooking Amundsen Gulf
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
NlPp-VP: A large bowhead whale rib fragment (81 x 18 x 6 cm) was collected from coarse beach gravel, about 70% embedded. No other bones were present at this site. This is the second highest elevation of the bowhead whale remains found in the region in 1998.

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