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- Lab number
- S-3544
- Field number
- 93-DCA-065
- Material dated
- walrus bone collagen; collagène osseux de morse
- Taxa dated
- Odobenus rosmarus tusk (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 12 km east-southeast of Owen Point, 37 m asl, Wellington Channel coast of Devon Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 58 G/16
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 1490 ± 170
- Normalized Age
- 1680 ± 170
- δ13C (per mil)
- -13.8
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- alluvial gravel at apex of alluvial fan overlooking Wellington Channel
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Odobenus rosmarus
- Comments
- QlJm-VP: A scatter of walrus bones was partly buried in alluvial fan gravel along a distance of about 50 m right at the edge of the fan near its apex where it has incised 3 m below the crest of adjacent raised beaches. The sample consists of a skull with both tusks and most molars and a mandible. The minor extent of scattering and the location of the bones indicate that they were eroded from the adjacent beach, the crest of which is at 40 m asl. The marine limit directly inland from this site is at about 89 m. The left tusk was complete and measured 44.5 cm long (maximum straight line length) and 5.4 cm wide at its widest part (at the gum line). The age determination indicates that this animal wandered inland and died and that it has no relative sea level significance.