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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.