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- Lab number
- TO-8010
- Field number
- 98-DCA-021
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus rib (25.5 g, id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- about 6.1 km east-northeast of Cape Baring, Wollaston Peninsula, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories
- Map sheet
- 87 F/02
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- June 20, 2000
- Normalized Age
- 1040 ± 60
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- raised beach gravel, 22 m asl, overlooking Amundsen Gulf
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- OaPp-VP: A rib bone of a bowhead whale was 50% embedded in gravelly beach sand. No other bones occur at this site. A driftwood sample (98-DCA-022) was collected from a 21.5 m beach about 500 m to the west of the rib.