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- Lab number
- S-3637
- Field number
- 95-DCA-Sav2
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus mandible (id. by J.M. Savelle)
- Locality
- 53-54 m asl, about 7 km inland on the north coast of Stefansson Island, off Victoria Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 78 D/10
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 8820 ± 100
- Normalized Age
- 8930 ± 100
- δ13C (per mil)
- -18.1
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- sand on a terrace overlooking Viscount Melville Sound
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- PkNe-VP: One mandible and parts of a second are exposed on a sand terrace mapped as glaciomarine sands by Hodgson (1993; map unit 4). The complete mandible was in three pieces, with total length of 3.3 m. The second mandible consisted of three scattered large pieces and >10 smaller pieces. A large piece of the second mandible was sampled for dating.