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- Lab number
- S-2668
- Field number
- 84-DCA-517
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus skull (id. by D.E.C. Green)
- Locality
- 4 km south of Cape Walker, 36.6 m asl, Barrow Strait, eastern Russell Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 68 E/02
- Submitter
- D.E.C. Green
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 5535 ± 475
- Normalized Age
- 5695 ± 475
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology, anomalous, young; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel on a raised beach overlooking Barrow Strait
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- QaLf-VP: According to A.S. Dyke, S-2668 is anomalously young for this elevation; the age should be >6.6 ka BP.