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Lab number
S-3609
Field number
89-DCA-140
Material dated
narwhal bone collagen; collagène osseux de narval
Taxa dated
Monodon monoceros tusk (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
Tiriganialaag River, east coast of Brodeur Peninsula, Admiralty Inlet, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
48 B/03
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
990 ± 130
Normalized Age
1190 ± 130
δ13C (per mil)
-12.4
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
surface collection on raised beach gravel, 21 m asl, overlooking Admiralty Inlet
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Monodon monoceros
Comments
PbHt-VP: A narwhal tusk fragment in a cranial fragment lay on the gravel surface of a bench. The specimen was exposed by retreat of a perennial snowbank. Its state of preservation suggests that the snowbank rarely retreats this much.

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