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Lab number
TO-8010
Field number
98-DCA-021
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus rib (25.5 g, id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
about 6.1 km east-northeast of Cape Baring, Wollaston Peninsula, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories
Map sheet
87 F/02
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
June 20, 2000
Normalized Age
1040 ± 60
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
raised beach gravel, 22 m asl, overlooking Amundsen Gulf
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
OaPp-VP: A rib bone of a bowhead whale was 50% embedded in gravelly beach sand. No other bones occur at this site. A driftwood sample (98-DCA-022) was collected from a 21.5 m beach about 500 m to the west of the rib.

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