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Canada / NU / PaHd-? / CAMS-33465
- Lab number
- CAMS-33465
- Field number
- 91-DCA-046
- Material dated
- beluga bone collagen; collagène osseux de béluga
- Taxa dated
- Delphinapterus leucas teeth (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- head of Koluktoo Bay, Milne Inlet, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 48 A/02
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- October 19, 0098
- Normalized Age
- 2980 ± 60
- δ13C (per mil)
- -12.5
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel on a raised beach, 10 m asl, overlooking Eclipse Sound
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Delphinapterus leucas
- Comments
- PaHd-VP: Four teeth were collected from the upper left jaw of a beluga. The bone was degraded, and the right jaw was missing. A detached cranium lies nearby along with a few degraded beluge vertebrae, 80% buried in beach gravel. A bowhead skull occurs 10 m northward. An earbone was also collected from one side of the beluga cranium. Two of the larger teeth, 6.5 and 7.1 cm long, were selected for dating, yielded the first non-archaeological beluga date from the Canadian Arctic.