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Lab number
TO-5062
Field number
93-DCA-053
Material dated
narwhal bone collagen; collagène osseux de narval
Taxa dated
Monodon monoceros tusk (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
18.3 km north-northwest of Owen Point, 4.4 km southeast of Point Hogarth, Wellington Channel coast of Devon Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
59 B/01
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
September 9, 0098
Normalized Age
4400 ± 60
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
raised beach gravel, 90% buried, 15 m asl, overlooking Wellington Channel
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Monodon monoceros
Comments
RaJn-VP: This sample consists of an unerupted tusk of a female narwhal that was still enclosed in highly weathered maxillary bone.

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