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- Lab number
- S-3090
- Field number
- 88-DCA-138
- Material dated
- walrus bone collagen; collagène osseux de morse
- Taxa dated
- Odobenus rosmarus tusk (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 12.4 km west of Stanley Point, north coast of Brodeur Peninsula, 25 m asl, Lancaster Sound, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 48 C/15
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 8350 ± 80
- Normalized Age
- 8510 ± 80
- 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 was partly enclosed in beach gravel. This tusk is within a few hundred metres of samples 88-DCA-136 and 88-DCA-137, but different tusk lengths indicate that more than one animal is present.