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Lab number
TO-7758
Field number
98-DCA-098
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (23.2 g, id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
about 2.5 km inland from the coast just north of Penny Bay, north of Kugaluk River, Wollaston Peninsula, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories
Map sheet
87 C/09
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
June 20, 2000
Normalized Age
9300 ± 80
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
beach gravel capped by peat, 41.5 m asl, overlooking Amundsen Gulf
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
NkPo-VP: Periotic bones were collected from both sides of a bowhead whale skull embedded dorsal side up in beach gravel capped by peat. A cervical vertebra occurs 100 m to the south.

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