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- Lab number
- GSC-1498-3
- Field number
- BS-70-205
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène 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
- 7240 ± 80
- δ13C (per mil)
- -16.4
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel beach, 38 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Additional information
- 15 g of the original collagen was burned, and the KOH method was used.
- 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.