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Canada / NU / PgLd-? / CAMS-38025
- Lab number
- CAMS-38025
- Field number
- 86-DCA-557
- Material dated
- walrus bone collagen; collagène osseux de morse
- Taxa dated
- Odobenus rosmarus tusk (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- northwest coast of Prescott Island, Peel Sound, Prince of Wales Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 68 D/02
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- October 19, 0098
- Normalized Age
- 7980 ± 40
- δ13C (per mil)
- -18.5
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel surface of a raised beach, 6.5 m asl, overlooking Peel Sound
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Odobenus rosmarus
- Additional information
- AMS date.
- Comments
- PgLd-VP: The age indicates that the tusk came to rest on the sea floor in a considerable depth of water. This is the only walrus fossil collected from Prince of Wales Island.