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Lab number
TO-8363
Field number
98-DCA-028
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus vertebra (16.9 g, id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
about 6 km south-southwest 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
1340 ± 80
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
surface of raised beach gravel, 3 m asl, overlooking Amundsen Gulf
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
NlPq-VP: A bowhead whale vertebra (central disk 18 cm diameter x 10 cm thick) was collected from the surface of a gravelly sand raised beach. No other whale bones occur nearby. About 100 m to the north is a possible Palaeoeskimo site at 3.5-4 m elevation with associated polar bear bones.

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