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Lab number
TO-7760
Field number
98-DCA-102
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (52.7 g, id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
about 2.5 km inland from the coast just north of Penny Bay, north of Kugaluk River, Wollaston Peninsula, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories
Map sheet
87 C/09
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
June 20, 2000
Normalized Age
8830 ± 80
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravelly beach sand, 28 m asl, overlooking Amundsen Gulf
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
NkPo-VP: A periotic stem bone was collected from one side of a fractured bowhead whale skull base embedded in gravelly beach sand.

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