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Canada / NU / MkDb-? (Amaroktalik) / U-4140
- Lab number
- U-4140
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Cetacea
- Locality
- Bear Bay, Cumberland Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 26 P/15
- Submitter
- C. Schlüchter
- Date submitted
- July 21, 0098
- Normalized Age
- 1320 ± 90
- δ13C (per mil)
- -17.6
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- within beach boulder on surface of terrace, 10 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Cetacea
- Additional information
- Organic fraction obtained after dissolving part of bone in 2N HCl, neutralizing with NaOH, dating the insoluble component, gas obtained early.
- Comments
- MkDb-VP, Amaroktalik: A whale vertebra was found within beach boulder on the surface of a terrace, 10 m asl. Five dates were obtained from different pre-treatment methods and from gas collected at various stages of combustion.