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- Lab number
- GSC-1498-2
- Field number
- BS-70-205
- Material dated
- whale bone apatite; apatite osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus skull? fragment (1043 g)
- Locality
- 7.5 km north of Cape Storm, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 49 B/05
- Submitter
- W. Blake, Jr
- Date submitted
- July 17, 0098
- Normalized Age
- 6560 ± 170
- δ13C (per mil)
- -11.9
- Significance
- palaeobiology, anomalous, young; paléobiologie, anormal, jeune
- Context
- gravel beach, 38 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Additional information
- Treated with acetic acid to obtain apatite, then treated with H3PO4 to obtain CO2.
- Comments
- RcHw-VP-5, Cape Storm: A whale bone, possibly a skull fragment, more than 2 m long, was imbedded in frozen beach gravel. Dates were obtained on both collagen and apatite.