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Canada / QC / EbDg-? / CAMS-43266
- Lab number
- CAMS-43266
- Field number
- RM-6426
- Material dated
- walrus bone collagen; collagène osseux de morse
- Taxa dated
- Odobenus rosmarus cranium (id. by C.R. Harington)
- Locality
- La Chaloupe, between Moise and Sheldrake, Côte-Nord region, Québec
- Map sheet
- 22 I/06
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke and C.R. Harington
- Date submitted
- June 23, 0098
- Measured Age
- 710 ± 40
- Normalized Age
- 870 ± 40
- δ13C (per mil)
- -14.5
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- surface of sandy hill, 9 m asl, 250 m inland
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Odobenus rosmarus
- Additional information
- AMS date.
- Comments
- EbDg-VP: This fresh looking complete skull of an adult male walrus was collected around AD 1900 and stored at Redpath Museum, McGill University thereafter. The specimen consists of a cranium with tusks and an associated mandible lacking teeth. It was probably found on a raised beach.