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Canada / NU / RcHw-?-5 (Cape Storm) / GSC-979
- Lab number
- GSC-979
- Field number
- BS-186-67
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus? rib (2365 g, id. by C.R. Harington)
- Locality
- 7.5 km north of Cape Storm, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 49 B/05
- Submitter
- W. Blake, Jr
- Date submitted
- September 21, 0098
- Normalized Age
- 5600 ± 60
- δ13C (per mil)
- -16.1
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel beach, 23 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus?
- Additional information
- Collagen was extracted, and the NaOH leach was omitted; 27.2 g of collagen was burned.
- Comments
- RcHw-VP-5, Cape Storm: A whale rib was associated with a cranium probably referable to Balaena mysticetus. The rib was dated on both collagen and apatite.