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- Lab number
- GSC-1496 -2
- Field number
- BS-70-55
- Material dated
- whale bone apatite; apatite osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- probably Balaena mysticetus mandible? (438.5 g)
- Locality
- Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 49 B/05
- Elevation (m ASL)
- 118.0
- Submitter
- W. Blake, Jr
- Date updated
- July 22, 1998
- Measured Age
- 8860 ± 180
- Normalized Age
- 9040 ± 180
- δ13C (per mil)
- -13.5
- Significance
- palaeobiology, anomalous, young; paléobiologie, anormal, jeune
- Context
- upper limit of a series of raised beaches, 118 m asl, embedded and frozen in place