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- Lab number
- S-3091
- Field number
- 88-DCA-136
- Material dated
- walrus bone collagen; collagène osseux de morse
- Taxa dated
- Odobenus rosmarus tusk (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 12.5 km west of Stanley Point, north coast of Brodeur Peninsula, 35 m asl, Lancaster Sound, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 48 C/15
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 1580 ± 50
- Normalized Age
- 1740 ± 55
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel on a raised beach overlooking Lancaster Sound
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Odobenus rosmarus
- Comments
- PkHq-VP: A single walrus tusk and cranium were partly enclosed in beach gravel. Fifty metres directly upslope from this site is sample 88-DCA-137, consisting of a mandible, leg bones, 2 scapulae, 2 vertebrae, and a fractured rib at 40.5 metres, likely the same animal as 88-DCA-136.