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- Lab number
- TO-8012
- Field number
- 98-DCA-074
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus rib (130 g, id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- about 11.1 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
- 9930 ± 80
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- coarse beach gravel, 52 m asl, overlooking Amundsen Gulf
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- NlPp-VP: A large bowhead whale rib fragment (81 x 18 x 6 cm) was collected from coarse beach gravel, about 70% embedded. No other bones were present at this site. This is the second highest elevation of the bowhead whale remains found in the region in 1998.