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- Lab number
- TO-8011
- Field number
- 98-DCA-068
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus rib (33.5 g, id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- about 2.9 km north-northeast of Cape Larsen and south of Cape Baring, Wollaston Peninsula, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories
- Map sheet
- 87 C/15
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- June 20, 2000
- Normalized Age
- 1660 ± 60
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- surface of very coarse raised beach gravel, 11 m asl, overlooking Amundsen Gulf
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- NkPp-VP: A bowhead whale rib fragment (65 x 10 x 8 cm) was collected from the surface of a very coarse gravel raised beach. No other bowhead bones were seen in the vicinity. This is one of few bones found between 4 and 28 m altitude.