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Lab number
S-1392
Field number
77-DCA-B09
Material dated
walrus bone collagen; collagène osseux de morse
Taxa dated
Odobenus rosmarus tusk (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
10 km south-southwest of Cape Anne, 103 m asl, Somerset Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
58 F/03
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
2420 ± 70
Normalized Age
2580 ± 70
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel and sand, 30% buried on a poorly vegetated hillslope overlooking Barrow Strait, 103 m asl
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Odobenus rosmarus
Additional information
Re-dated by GSC-3081.
Comments
QaJu-VP: An entire skeleton, scattered over a 10-20 square metre area, was collected for the Canadian Museum of Nature. S-1392 was later cross-checked by a GSC age determination on one of the tusks (GSC-3081; 2450 +/- 180 BP).

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