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- Lab number
- S-2665
- Field number
- 84-DCA-507
- Material dated
- seal bone collagen; collagène osseux de phoque
- Taxa dated
- Phoca sp. humerus (id. by D.E.C. Green)
- Locality
- 39.9 m asl, Barrow Strait, north-central Russell Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 68 E/03
- Submitter
- D.E.C. Green
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 5910 ± 195
- Normalized Age
- 6070 ± 195
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- sand and gravel on a raised beach overlooking Barrow Strait
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Phoca sp
- Comments
- QaLg-VP: According to A.S. Dyke, S-2665 is too young to relate to a relative sea level of 40 metres elevation, which should be >7.0 ka BP. This is one of the oldest seal bone dates from Arctic Canada, but the result should be treated as a minimum estimate of the age of the bones.