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Lab number
Beta-83411
Field number
CRH-95-15
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena sp. (id. by C.R. Harington)
Locality
Cook's Harbour, Newfoundland
Map sheet
2 M/12
Submitter
C.R. Harington
Date submitted
September 25, 0098
Measured Age
8900 ± 40
Normalized Age
9010 ± 40
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
raised beach sand and gravel, about 45 m asl
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena sp
Comments
EjAx-VP, Burnt Head Gravel Pit: Harington, C.R., 1998: Northern Pen, vol. 19, No. 16, Tuesday April 21, 1998, p. A12: "In the August 16, 1994 edition of Northern Pen, 'An unusual find near Cook's Harbour,' was front page news. Everton Pittman found bones of 'what might be a walrus' while screening a load of sand from a pit seven miles west of Cook's Harbour. On June 10 of the following year, I was fortunate enough to visit Everton... The conformation of the skull, its massiveness and large tusks... led me to conclude that it represented an adult male walrus. In addition, four rib fragments and nine vertebrae had been collected from the Burnt Head gravel pit. Finally I was able to ... radiocarbon date not only a neck vertebra from Everton's walrus, but also a rib fragment from a large whale -- probably a bowhead -- that I collected from the same locality in the gravel pit. The walrus bone yielded a date of about 8,700 and the whale about 9,000 years old..."

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