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Canada / NS / AlCa-? / CAMS-43269
- Lab number
- CAMS-43269
- Field number
- CR-94-5
- Material dated
- walrus bone collagen; collagène osseux de morse
- Taxa dated
- Odobenus rosmarus tusk (id. by C.R. Harington)
- Locality
- Sable Island, Nova Scotia
- Map sheet
- 10 N/16
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke and C.R. Harington
- Date submitted
- October 19, 0098
- Measured Age
- 6410 ± 50
- Normalized Age
- 6590 ± 50
- δ13C (per mil)
- -13.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- sand on the modern beach surface
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Odobenus rosmarus
- Additional information
- AMS date.
- Comments
- AlCa-VP: The tusk of an adult make walrus, along with the facial region and four cheek teeth, was found washing out on the modern beach.