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Canada / NU / PkHv-? (Cape York) / CAMS-33464
- Lab number
- CAMS-33464
- Field number
- 89-DCA-024
- Material dated
- narwhal bone collagen; collagène osseux de narval
- Taxa dated
- Monodon monoceros tusk (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- Cape York, north coast of Brodeur Peninsula, Lancaster Sound, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 48 C/13
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- October 19, 0098
- Normalized Age
- 7270 ± 50
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.3
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel on a raised beach, 7.5 m asl, overlooking Lancaster Sound
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Monodon monoceros
- Comments
- PkHv-VP: Two unerupted tusks were removed from the skull of a female narwhal 95% buried in beach gravel. The less weathered tusk was selected for dating.