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- Lab number
- GSC-1227
- Field number
- BS-22-67
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus posterior cranial fragment (500 g, id. by C.R. Harington)
- Locality
- 8 km north-northeast of Cape Storm, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 49 B/05
- Submitter
- W. Blake, Jr
- Date submitted
- July 17, 0098
- Normalized Age
- 1610 ± 50
- δ13C (per mil)
- -13.8
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel surface of a raised beach, 3 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Additional information
- Recovery of collagen included a 1-hour leach in 0.1N NaOH; 19.0 g was burned.
- Comments
- RcHw-VP-4, Cape Storm: A posterior cranial fragment of a whale was found resting on the surface of a raised beach. Both collagen and apatite were dated.