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Lab number
TO-7755
Field number
98-DCA-073
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (33.4 g, id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
about 10.7 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
10210 ± 70
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
beach gravel capped by peat, 56 m asl, overlooking Amundsen Gulf
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
NlPp-VP: A periotic bone was collected from the left side of a bowhead whale skull base 99% buried upside down in medium raised beach gravel capped by peat. This is the highest elevation of the bowhead whale remains found in the region in 1998.

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