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- Lab number
- TO-7759
- Field number
- 98-DCA-100
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (20.8 g, id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- about 3 km inland from the coast just north of Penny Bay, north of Kugaluk River, Wollaston Peninsula, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories
- Map sheet
- 87 C/15
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- June 20, 2000
- Normalized Age
- 9500 ± 80
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- wind eroded sandy beach gravel, 43 m asl, overlooking Amundsen Gulf
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- NkPp-VP: A periotic bone was collected from one side of a bowhead whale skull embedded ventral side up in wind eroded sandy beach gravel. Wind erosion of the bone has truncated it flush with the surface of the beach.