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Lab number
CAMS-60325
Field number
98-DCA-063
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (18 g, id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
about 9.8 km north of Cape Larsen and 20 km 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
9060 ± 50
δ13C (per mil)
-20.4
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
cryoturbated till capped by peat, overlooking Amundsen Gulf
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
NlPp-VP: A complete periotic bone and a periotic stem were collected from a bowhead whale skull base 90% buried upright in cryoturbated till capped by peat. The tip of a large mandible was exposed here as well.

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