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Lab number
Beta-16161
Material dated
walrus bone collagen; collagène osseux de morse
Taxa dated
Odobenus rosmarus humerus
Locality
Moncton, Moncton County, New Brunswick
Map sheet
21 I/02
Submitter
C.R. Harington
Date submitted
July 28, 0098
Measured Age
9700 ± 130
Normalized Age
9860 ± 130
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel pit
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Odobenus rosmarus
Comments
CaDe-VP: A nearly complete walrus skeleton was recovered from an Intercolonial Railway gravel pit, about 1871, by a crew under the supervision of Sandford Fleming.

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