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- Lab number
- TO-7752
- Field number
- 98-DCA-060
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus squamosal (48.6 g, id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- about 14 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
- 9270 ± 80
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- eolian sand on medium beach gravel, 39 m asl, overlooking Amundsen Gulf
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- NlPp-VP: Fragments of the right squamosal bone were removed with a knife and hammer from a fragmented bowhead whale skull buried in eolian sand on medium raised beach gravel. Sample 98-DCA-61 (TO-7753) is from the same level but a different animal.