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- Lab number
- GSC-3600
- Field number
- 81BS173
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena sp. rib (717.3 g, id. by C.R. Harington)
- Locality
- north side of Baird Inlet, 11.4 km west-southwest from Wade Point, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 39 E/12
- Submitter
- W. Blake, Jr
- Date submitted
- July 17, 0098
- Normalized Age
- 6500 ± 260
- δ13C (per mil)
- -20.3
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- a small terrace in a stream channel cutting through beaches, 80 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena
- Comments
- SdFk-VP: The age is younger than expected in view of the elevation. Perhaps a polar bear transported the rib upslope.