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Lab number
TO-7753
Field number
98-DCA-061
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (33.5 g, id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
about 14.2 km south-southeast 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
9070 ± 100
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
eolian sand on medium beach gravel, 40 m asl, overlooking Amundsen Gulf
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
NlPp-VP: A periotic bone was collected from the right side of a bowhead whale skull base buried in eolian sand on medium raised beach gravel. Sample 98-DCA-60 (TO-7752) is about 1 m lower by eye. At this site are skull fragments, maxilla fragments, and two vertebrae.

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