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Lab number
S-3090
Field number
88-DCA-138
Material dated
walrus bone collagen; collagène osseux de morse
Taxa dated
Odobenus rosmarus tusk (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
12.4 km west of Stanley Point, north coast of Brodeur Peninsula, 25 m asl, Lancaster Sound, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
48 C/15
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
8350 ± 80
Normalized Age
8510 ± 80
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel on a raised beach overlooking Lancaster Sound
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Odobenus rosmarus
Comments
PkHq-VP: A single walrus tusk was partly enclosed in beach gravel. This tusk is within a few hundred metres of samples 88-DCA-136 and 88-DCA-137, but different tusk lengths indicate that more than one animal is present.

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