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- Lab number
- TO-5016
- Field number
- 91-DCA-415
- Material dated
- walrus bone collagen; collagène osseux de morse
- Taxa dated
- Odobenus rosmarus tusk (id. by J. Hooper)
- Locality
- 5 km northwest of Point Kendall, Crown Prince Frederick Island, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 47 F/03
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 20, 0098
- Normalized Age
- 4940 ± 70
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- surface of raised beach gravel overlooking the Gulf of Boothia, 41 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Odobenus rosmarus
- Additional information
- AMS date.
- Comments
- OaHt-VP: An isolated walrus tusk was resting on the surface of a raised beach. Although not embedded, the vegetation around the tusk indicates a long period of immobility.