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- Lab number
- S-3093
- Field number
- 88-DCA-449
- Material dated
- walrus bone collagen; collagène osseux de morse
- Taxa dated
- Odobenus rosmarus tusk (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 3 km northeast of the head of Thibault Bay, Gulf of Boothia coast, 38 m asl, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 57 E/15
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 6200 ± 80
- Normalized Age
- 6360 ± 80
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel and sand on a raised beach overlooking the Gulf of Boothia
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Odobenus
- Comments
- OfJd-VP: A walrus cranium with one tusk was collected from the surface of a sandy raised beach; another tusk resting on the surface about 25 m away, is presumed to be from the same animal because it fits precisely into the cavity in the skull.