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Canada / NU / ReJs-? / CAMS-39511
- Lab number
- CAMS-39511
- Field number
- 93-DCA-186
- Material dated
- walrus bone collagen; collagène osseux de morse
- Taxa dated
- Odobenus rosmarus tusk (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 15.5 km south of Bere Bay, Belcher Channel coast of Grinnell Peninsula, Devon Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 59 B/11
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- October 19, 0098
- Normalized Age
- 910 ± 50
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.3
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- cryoturbated till overlooking Belcher Channel, about 250 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Odobenus rosmarus
- Comments
- ReJs-VP: A walrus skull, with much of both tusks, was 80% buried in cryoturbated till about 12 km inland from the marine-limit coast (15 km inland of the present coast) and well above the 99 m limit of postglacial marine transgression. A few other bones are scattered around. This is one of three walruses found at this camp that had clearly wandered inland and died. The other two are modern as they still had adhering tissue (a mummified hide lay beside one). The other skull and both tusks are in the personal collection of A.S. Dyke.