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Lab number
TO-8011
Field number
98-DCA-068
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus rib (33.5 g, id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
about 2.9 km north-northeast of Cape Larsen and south of Cape Baring, Wollaston Peninsula, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories
Map sheet
87 C/15
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
June 20, 2000
Normalized Age
1660 ± 60
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
surface of very coarse raised beach gravel, 11 m asl, overlooking Amundsen Gulf
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
NkPp-VP: A bowhead whale rib fragment (65 x 10 x 8 cm) was collected from the surface of a very coarse gravel raised beach. No other bowhead bones were seen in the vicinity. This is one of few bones found between 4 and 28 m altitude.

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