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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.